Greene, TN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

APPALACHIAN POWER CO, CITY OF GREENEVILLE - (TN), CITY OF NEWPORT, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FRENCH BROAD ELEC MEMBER CORP, HOLSTON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, JOHNSON CITY - (TN), KINGSPORT POWER CO, MOUNTAIN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TOWN OF ERWIN - (TN)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

52

Industrial retail rate

6.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

7 of 10 serving utilities: 5.2 to 9.3¢/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

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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

53,349 employed in construction within ~120 km (42 of 47 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 Greene

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Greene, Tennessee. At 500 kV, Greene carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Greene contains 52 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Greene, Tennessee, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Greene carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Greene, the per-utility spread is 7 of 10 serving utilities: 5.2 to 9.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Greene, Tennessee has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Greene, Tennessee, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Greene shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Greene, the USGS 2015 compilation records 11.49 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Greene sits within commuting range of roughly 53,349 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Greene here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Greene, Tennessee settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Greene, Tennessee requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Greene, Tennessee are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources