Elk, PA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC CO, UNITED ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (PA), WARREN ELECTRIC COOP INC, WEST PENN POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

15

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

No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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

6 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

23,297 employed in construction within ~120 km (20 of 21 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 Elk

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Elk, Pennsylvania that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Elk is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Elk carries 15 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Elk, the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 9.4 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Elk at the state level rather than as a county rate.

For Elk, Pennsylvania, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 6 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Elk. Grid carbon intensity for Elk, via its balancing authority, is 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Elk at 21.95 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Elk, about 23,297 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Elk figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Elk, Pennsylvania qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Elk, Pennsylvania turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Elk, Pennsylvania traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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