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Fairless Hills

Brownfield

Fairless Hills, Bucks, Pennsylvania · Constellation Power, Inc

Legacy capacity
60
MW

Fairless Hills is a natural gas plant in Fairless Hills, Bucks, Pennsylvania, retired 2020-06-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 60 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

Former usenatural gas plant
Site typeretired_plant
Existing capacity60 MW
Retirement date2020-06-01
EIA plant ID#7701

Grid hookup & remediation

Nearest substation0.0 mi
Operator address990 South Port Road, Fairless Hills, PA, 19030
Why this site is datacenter-attractive: a natural gas plant of this scale leaves behind a high-capacity grid interconnection that a new load can re-use, frequently shaving years off the interconnection queue. Retired-plant sites also tend to be already zoned for heavy industrial use with established road, rail, and water infrastructure.

Site conditions & market — Bucks 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

Total employment (laborshed)246,153
IT / tech employment825
Construction employment17,044
Land value$15,277/acre
Datacenter tax incentivesales_tax_exemption

Power economics & interconnection

Commercial power rate7.86¢/kWh
Industrial power rate4.86¢/kWh
Load growth (FERC-714)0.6%

Water & cooling

Water stressLow
Public water supply98.6 MGD
Industrial water use52.6 MGD
Cooling degree days800
Mean annual temp50°F

Hazard, flood & connectivity

FEMA risk index28.0 · Relatively Moderate
Fiber providers8 · 93% served

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 Fairless Hills — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.

SiteFormer useLegacy MWDistanceCleanup status
PSEG Burlington Generating Stationoil plant5778.1 mi—
Delaware Generating Stationoil plant31523.1 mi—
Sayrevilleoil plant25031.3 mi—
Vicinity Energy Trenton, L.P.natural gas plant155.3 mi—
South Brunswick Landfill Solarformer superfund site1320.3 micleanup_complete
BEMS Community Solar Landfill Projectformer landfill site1014.5 micleanup_complete
Princeton Landfill Solarformer landfill site315.5 micleanup_complete
Campbell's Soup #2former manufacturing site323.6 micleanup_complete

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 Fairless Hills, ranked by DC Readiness.

Candidate sites near Fairless Hills
SiteTypeStateCountyVoltageCapacityQueue waitScore
SAYREVILLESubstation-AdjacentNJMiddlesex County500 kV1,000 MW3.8 yrs71.9
EAST WINDSORSubstation-AdjacentNJMercer County500 kV1,000 MW3.8 yrs69.7
DEANSSubstation-AdjacentNJMiddlesex County500 kV1,000 MW3.8 yrs68.7
Paseo Verde South ApartmentsBrownfieldPAPhiladelphia230 kV—3.8 yrs68.7
Lake Campus Project at Princeton University (GSHP)BrownfieldNJMercer——3.8 yrs68.3
SMITHBURGSubstation-AdjacentNJMonmouth County500 kV1,000 MW3.8 yrs68.2
BURLINGTONSubstation-AdjacentNJPhiladelphia County230 kV300 MW3.8 yrs68.1
Campbell's Soup #1BrownfieldNJCamden—2 MW3.8 yrs67.7

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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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