St. Francis, AR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CRAIGHEAD ELECTRIC COOP CORP, ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, WOODRUFF ELECTRIC COOP CORP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

12

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

3 serving utilities: 6.4 to 21.7¢/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

10 projects, 1,911 MW

Proposed generation

455 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

33,052 employed in construction within ~120 km (23 of 25 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 St. Francis

Read on for the public power picture of St. Francis in Arkansas, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, St. Francis carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. St. Francis contains 12 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over St. Francis clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. St. Francis carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For St. Francis, the per-utility spread is 3 serving utilities: 6.4 to 21.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

St. Francis carries 10 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 1,910.92 MW of requested capacity. In St. Francis, 454.8 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over St. Francis shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For St. Francis, the USGS 2015 compilation records 368.12 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. St. Francis sits within commuting range of roughly 33,052 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources