Berrien, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF NILES - (MI), INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO, LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, NORTHERN INDIANA PUB SERV CO, WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

47

Industrial retail rate

8.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 6 serving utilities: 8.4¢/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

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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

2,126 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

138,512 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 Berrien

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Berrien, Michigan. At 765 kV, Berrien carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Berrien contains 47 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Berrien clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Berrien carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Berrien, the per-utility spread is 1 of 6 serving utilities: 8.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Berrien, Michigan has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Berrien, Michigan, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Berrien shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Berrien, the USGS 2015 compilation records 2,125.76 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Berrien sits within commuting range of roughly 138,512 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources