Aroostook, ME: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

EASTERN MAINE ELECTRIC COOP, HOULTON WATER COMPANY, VAN BUREN LIGHT & POWER DIST, VERSANT POWER

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

54

Industrial retail rate

15.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 4 serving utilities: 5.5 to 13.2¢/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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,413 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 Aroostook

What follows is a screening-grade read of Aroostook, Maine, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Aroostook extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 54 substations into Aroostook, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Aroostook runs through the ISONE market (ISO New England) and its rules. For Aroostook, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 15.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Aroostook that report an industrial rate span 3 of 4 serving utilities: 5.5 to 13.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Aroostook, Maine carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Aroostook, Maine has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. eGRID carries no output rate for the balancing authority above Aroostook, Maine, leaving carbon intensity blank rather than guessed.

Aroostook withdrew 24.64 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 5,413 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Aroostook (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources