Pointe Coupee, LA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF NEW ROADS - (LA), CLECO POWER LLC, CONCORDIA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DIXIE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP, ENTERGY LOUISIANA LLC, POINTE COUPEE ELEC MEMBER CORP, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA E M C

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

15

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

6 of 7 serving utilities: 5.2 to 17.7¢/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

4 projects, 1,033 MW

Proposed generation

2,341 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

68,407 employed in construction within ~120 km (28 of 29 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 Pointe Coupee

Everything here about Pointe Coupee, Louisiana comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Pointe Coupee reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 15 substations mapped, Pointe Coupee has a moderate spread of interconnection points.

Pointe Coupee falls inside the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Pointe Coupee is the 6.2 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Pointe Coupee, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 6 of 7 serving utilities: 5.2 to 17.7¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Pointe Coupee has 4 interconnection-queue projects on record, totalling 1,032.58 MW of requested capacity. Pointe Coupee has 2,340.9 MW of planned or under-construction generation on file in EIA-860M. The balancing authority covering Pointe Coupee carries a grid carbon intensity of 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Pointe Coupee are 331.88 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Pointe Coupee, some 68,407 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Pointe Coupee are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Pointe Coupee, Louisiana together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Pointe Coupee, Louisiana is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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