Crittenden, AR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF MEMPHIS - (TN), CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS - (AR), COAHOMA ELECTRIC POWER ASSN, CRAIGHEAD ELECTRIC COOP CORP, ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, ENTERGY MISSISSIPPI LLC, MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ELECTRIC CO

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

11

Industrial retail rate

6.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 7 serving utilities: 5.1 to 13.7¢/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

25 projects, 4,974 MW

Proposed generation

None on file (EIA-860M)Units 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

34,595 employed in construction within ~120 km (24 of 27 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 Crittenden

Read on for the public power picture of Crittenden in Arkansas, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Crittenden carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Crittenden contains 11 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Crittenden clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Crittenden carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Crittenden, the per-utility spread is 4 of 7 serving utilities: 5.1 to 13.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Crittenden carries 25 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 4,974.05 MW of requested capacity. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Crittenden, Arkansas, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Crittenden shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Crittenden, the USGS 2015 compilation records 263.66 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Crittenden sits within commuting range of roughly 34,595 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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