St. Joseph, IN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF MISHAWAKA, CITY OF NILES - (MI), INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO, KANKAKEE VALLEY RURAL E M C, MARSHALL COUNTY RURAL E M C, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, NOBLE COUNTY R E M C, NORTHERN INDIANA PUB SERV CO, TOWN OF NEW CARLISLE- (IN), TOWN OF WALKERTON - (IN), WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

52

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

4 of 11 serving utilities: 6.3 to 11.1¢/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

None on record

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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

66,906 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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. Joseph

This page gathers the public grid evidence for St. Joseph, Indiana that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in St. Joseph is 765 kV, an extra-high-voltage line. St. Joseph carries 52 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For St. Joseph, the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to St. Joseph at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in St. Joseph that publish a rate range 4 of 11 serving utilities: 6.3 to 11.1¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

St. Joseph, Indiana shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in St. Joseph, Indiana, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for St. Joseph, via its balancing authority, is 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across St. Joseph at 42.79 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of St. Joseph, about 66,906 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 St. Joseph figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for St. Joseph, Indiana 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 St. Joseph, Indiana turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for St. Joseph, Indiana traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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