DeKalb, IN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF AUBURN - (IN), CITY OF GARRETT, INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, NOBLE COUNTY R E M C, NORTH WESTERN ELEC COOP, INC, NORTHERN INDIANA PUB SERV CO, PAULDING-PUTMAN ELEC COOP, INC, STEUBEN COUNTY RURAL E M C

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

22

Industrial retail rate

8.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.3 to 17.5¢/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

180 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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

68,710 employed in construction within ~120 km (38 of 39 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 DeKalb

Read on for the public power picture of DeKalb in Indiana, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, DeKalb carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. DeKalb contains 22 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over DeKalb clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. DeKalb carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For DeKalb, the per-utility spread is 5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.3 to 17.5¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

DeKalb, Indiana shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In DeKalb, 180 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over DeKalb shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For DeKalb, the USGS 2015 compilation records 9.07 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. DeKalb sits within commuting range of roughly 68,710 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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