Van Buren, AR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, FIRST ELECTRIC COOP CORP, PETIT JEAN ELECTRIC COOP CORP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

161 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 14.1¢/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

1 projects, 61 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

25,013 employed in construction within ~120 km (19 of 24 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 Van Buren

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Van Buren, Arkansas. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Van Buren at its strongest mapped point. Van Buren contains 12 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Van Buren clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Van Buren carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Van Buren, the per-utility spread is 3 serving utilities: 6.4 to 14.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Van Buren carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 61 MW of requested capacity. For Van Buren, Arkansas, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Van Buren shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Van Buren, the USGS 2015 compilation records 2.59 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Van Buren sits within commuting range of roughly 25,013 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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