York, PA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ADAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC, BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC CO, BOROUGH OF GOLDSBORO - (PA), BOROUGH OF LEWISBERRY - (PA), DELMARVA POWER, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO, PECO ENERGY CO, PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORP

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

69

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 8 serving utilities: 1.7 to 10.2¢/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

157 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

220,033 employed in construction within ~120 km (31 of 32 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 York

For York, Pennsylvania, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in York is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. York carries 69 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For York, 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 York at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in York that publish a rate range 2 of 8 serving utilities: 1.7 to 10.2¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For York, Pennsylvania, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 157.1 MW of generation as planned or under construction in York. Grid carbon intensity for York, via its balancing authority, is 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across York at 83.28 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of York, about 220,033 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 York figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for York, 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 York, Pennsylvania turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for York, Pennsylvania traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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