Charlevoix, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF CHARLEVOIX - (MI), CITY OF HARBOR SPRINGS - (MI), CONSUMERS ENERGY CO, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY, GREAT LAKES ENERGY COOP, PRESQUE ISLE ELEC & GAS COOP, WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

19

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

4 of 7 serving utilities: 6.6 to 12.4¢/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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

11,135 employed in construction within ~120 km (17 of 18 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 Charlevoix

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Charlevoix, Michigan. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Charlevoix at its strongest mapped point. Charlevoix contains 19 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Charlevoix clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Charlevoix carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Charlevoix, the per-utility spread is 4 of 7 serving utilities: 6.6 to 12.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Charlevoix, Michigan has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Charlevoix, Michigan in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Charlevoix shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Charlevoix, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.87 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Charlevoix sits within commuting range of roughly 11,135 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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