Guthrie, IA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF COON RAPIDS, CITY OF PANORA - (IA), CITY OF STUART - (IA), FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (IA), GUTHRIE COUNTY RURAL E C A, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT CO, MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO, MIDLAND POWER COOP, RACCOON VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

3

Industrial retail rate

7.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 10 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.2¢/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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

36,339 employed in construction within ~120 km (29 of 30 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 Guthrie

What follows is a screening-grade read of Guthrie, Iowa, built only from named public datasets. At 161 kV, Guthrie sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped footprint in Guthrie, Iowa is sparse, 3 substations, so options cluster at those points.

Interconnection over Guthrie runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Guthrie, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.2 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Guthrie that report an industrial rate span 3 of 10 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Guthrie, Iowa, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Nothing is on file for Guthrie, Iowa in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Guthrie sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Guthrie withdrew 2.29 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 36,339 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Guthrie (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Guthrie, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Guthrie, Iowa describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Guthrie, Iowa, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Guthrie, Iowa refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources