Mobile, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, BALDWIN COUNTY EL MEMBER CORP, MISSISSIPPI POWER CO, SINGING RIVER ELEC COOPERATIVE

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

177

Industrial retail rate

7.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 4 serving utilities: 8.0¢/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

8 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

843 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

41,375 employed in construction within ~120 km (15 of 16 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 Mobile

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Mobile, Alabama. At 500 kV, Mobile carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Mobile contains 177 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Mobile clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Mobile carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Mobile, the per-utility spread is 1 of 4 serving utilities: 8.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Mobile, Alabama shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Mobile, 8.3 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Mobile shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Mobile, the USGS 2015 compilation records 783.99 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Mobile sits within commuting range of roughly 41,375 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Mobile here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Mobile, Alabama 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 Mobile, Alabama requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Mobile, Alabama are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources