Pike, PA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LT CO, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO, NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, ORANGE & ROCKLAND UTILS INC, PIKE COUNTY LIGHT & POWER CO, PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORP, SUSSEX RURAL ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

17

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

None on file (EIA-860M)Units 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

259,491 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 Pike

What follows is a screening-grade read of Pike, Pennsylvania, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Pike extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 17 substations across Pike, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Pike runs through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Pike, 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.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Pike, Pennsylvania, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Pike, Pennsylvania has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Pike sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

Pike withdrew 4.38 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 259,491 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Pike (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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