Avon Park
BrownfieldAvon Park, Highlands, Florida · Duke Energy Florida, LLC
Avon Park is a natural gas plant in Avon Park, Highlands, Florida, retired 2020-10-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 67 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Highlands County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Avon Park — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hines Energy Complex | natural gas plant | 1,034 | 27.2 mi | — |
| Phillips | oil plant | 42 | 12.3 mi | — |
| Dinner Lake | natural gas plant | 13 | 6.9 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Avon Park, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN108701 | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.4 |
| Brownfield Site | Brownfield | FL | Hardee County | — | 1,560 MW | 3.6 yrs | 67.0 |
| UNKNOWN125381 | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 67.0 |
| NORTH BARTOW | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 66.7 |
| WEST LAKE WALES | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 66.6 |
| BARCOLA | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 66.5 |
| EC Near Cutrale Citrus Juices USA II | Greenfield | FL | Polk | — | — | 3.6 yrs | 66.5 |
| OZ Polk | Greenfield | FL | Polk | — | — | 3.6 yrs | 66.3 |
Nearby internet exchanges
- Cologix LAK1Lakeland, FL · 3 networks
- Lawton Information Services, LLCLakeland, FL · 1 networks
- ACW Winter HavenWinter Haven, FL · 0 networks
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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This page shows a public slice of the GridCensus dataset for Avon Park, Avon Park, Highlands, Florida. Pro and Enterprise plans unlock the full 147,272-site catalog, raw sub-scores, parcel ownership, interconnection-queue detail, saved searches, and programmatic API access.