Boone, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF RISING SUN - (IN), DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC, DUKE ENERGY KENTUCKY, DUKE ENERGY OHIO INC, EAST KENTUCKY POWER COOP, INC, LAWRENCEBURG MUNICIPAL UTILS, OWEN ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA R E M C

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

33

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 8 serving utilities: 6.1 to 9.8¢/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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

116,240 employed in construction within ~120 km (46 of 54 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 Boone

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Boone, Kentucky. At 345 kV, Boone carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Boone contains 33 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Boone clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Boone carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Boone, the per-utility spread is 2 of 8 serving utilities: 6.1 to 9.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Boone, Kentucky, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Boone, Kentucky, a real zero rather than a gap. The balancing authority over Boone, Kentucky has no eGRID output rate, so carbon intensity is absent rather than estimated.

For Boone, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.69 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Boone sits within commuting range of roughly 116,240 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources