Hancock, IA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOONE VALLEY ELECTRIC COOP, CASS ELECTRIC COOP, CITY OF CORWITH - (IA), CITY OF FOREST CITY- (IA), FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC ASSN, FRANKLIN RURAL ELECTRIC COOP - (IA), HEARTLAND POWER COOP, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT CO, MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO, MIDLAND POWER COOP, PRAIRIE ENERGY COOP

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

20

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

6 of 11 serving utilities: 6.0 to 15.3¢/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

5 projects, 276 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

15,613 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 Hancock

Read on for the public power picture of Hancock in Iowa, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Hancock at its strongest mapped point. Hancock contains 20 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Hancock clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Hancock carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.2 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Hancock, the per-utility spread is 6 of 11 serving utilities: 6.0 to 15.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Hancock carries 5 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 275.75 MW of requested capacity. For Hancock, Iowa, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Hancock shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Hancock, the USGS 2015 compilation records 5.38 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Hancock sits within commuting range of roughly 15,613 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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