Cleveland Cnty Generating Facility
BrownfieldKings Mountain, Cleveland, North Carolina · Southern Power Co
Cleveland Cnty Generating Facility is a natural gas plant in Kings Mountain, Cleveland, North Carolina. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 736 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 — Cleveland 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 Cleveland Cnty Generating Facility — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James E. Rogers Energy Complex | coal plant | 1,010 | 19.7 mi | — |
| Sediver | natural gas plant | 520 | 19.2 mi | — |
| 99 Islands | former hydro site | 6 | 10.6 mi | — |
| Gastonia Duke Street | oil plant | 2 | 16.4 mi | — |
| Gastonia Rankin Lake | oil plant | 2 | 17.0 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 Cleveland Cnty Generating Facility, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEWPORT TIE | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 1.0 yrs | 74.4 |
| Sediver | Brownfield | SC | York County | — | 520 MW | 3.7 yrs | 71.7 |
| TAP150276 | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 69.8 |
| CATAWBA 230KV SWITCHING STATION | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 69.8 |
| UNKNOWN111316 | Substation-Adjacent | NC | Cleveland County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 3.8 yrs | 69.2 |
| RIPP SWITCHING STATION | Substation-Adjacent | SC | Cherokee County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 67.8 |
| OZ York | Greenfield | SC | York | — | — | 3.7 yrs | 67.5 |
| UNKNOWN133860 | Substation-Adjacent | NC | Cherokee County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 66.2 |
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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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