Catahoula, LA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF JONESVILLE - (LA), CLECO POWER LLC, CONCORDIA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, ENTERGY LOUISIANA LLC, NORTHEAST LOUISIANA POWER COOP INC., POINTE COUPEE ELEC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

7

Industrial retail rate

6.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.2 to 19.4¢/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

2 projects, 300 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

11,649 employed in construction within ~120 km (20 of 25 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 Catahoula

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Catahoula, Louisiana. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Catahoula at its strongest mapped point. Catahoula contains 7 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Catahoula clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Catahoula carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.2 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Catahoula, the per-utility spread is 5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.2 to 19.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Catahoula carries 2 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 300 MW of requested capacity. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Catahoula, Louisiana, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Catahoula shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Catahoula, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.36 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Catahoula sits within commuting range of roughly 11,649 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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