Washington, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, BALDWIN COUNTY EL MEMBER CORP, BLACK WARRIOR ELEC MEMBER CORP, CLARKE-WASHINGTON E M C, DIXIE ELECTRIC POWER ASSN, MISSISSIPPI POWER CO, SINGING RIVER ELEC COOPERATIVE

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

22

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

3 of 7 serving utilities: 8.0 to 12.4¢/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

438 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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

35,949 employed in construction within ~120 km (19 of 21 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 Washington

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Washington, Alabama that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Washington is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Washington carries 22 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Washington, the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.7 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Washington at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Washington that publish a rate range 3 of 7 serving utilities: 8.0 to 12.4¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Washington, Alabama has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 438 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Washington. The balancing authority over Washington, Alabama has no eGRID output rate, so carbon intensity is absent rather than estimated.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Washington at 56.12 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Washington, about 35,949 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Washington figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Washington, Alabama qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Washington, Alabama turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Washington, Alabama traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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