Butler, PA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOROUGH OF GROVE CITY - (PA), BOROUGH OF ZELIENOPLE - (PA), CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (PA), DUQUESNE LIGHT CO, PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC CO, PENNSYLVANIA POWER CO, WEST PENN POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

51

Industrial retail rate

9.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 7 serving utilities: 1.6 to 11.5¢/kWhLowest to highest industrial rate among the utilities serving this county (EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers). A spread, not the county’s rate, and it covers only the serving utilities that report one.

Interconnection queue

None on record

Proposed generation

9 MW planned or under constructionUnits filed with EIA as planned or under construction (Form EIA-860M). Declared intent from the federal inventory, not the interconnection queue and not guaranteed capacity.

Grid carbon intensity

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

14 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

82,689 employed in construction within ~120 km (28 of 29 counties reporting)A large build needs hundreds of skilled construction workers on site for one to three years. A county with few of them within commuting range means bussing crews in, per diem, and housing, which is real cost and schedule risk. This counts people employed in construction within about a 120 km drive (BLS QCEW), summed across nearby counties. It is not labor known to be available: most are already committed to other projects, and no public data reveals who is free.

Grid conditions in Butler

What follows is a screening-grade read of Butler, Pennsylvania, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Butler extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 51 substations into Butler, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Butler runs through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) and its rules. For Butler, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 9.4 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Butler that report an industrial rate span 2 of 7 serving utilities: 1.6 to 11.5¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Butler, Pennsylvania, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M records 9 MW planned or under construction for Butler. Butler sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

Butler withdrew 14 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 82,689 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Butler (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Butler, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Butler, Pennsylvania describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Butler, Pennsylvania, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Butler, Pennsylvania refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

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