Monroe, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CONSUMERS ENERGY CO, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, THE TOLEDO EDISON CO, VILLAGE OF CLINTON - (MI), WYANDOTTE MUNICIPAL SERV COMM

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

45

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

3 of 6 serving utilities: 6.6 to 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

18 projects, 5,518 MW

Proposed generation

100 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

1,819 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

124,132 employed in construction within ~120 km (22 of 23 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 Monroe

Read on for the public power picture of Monroe in Michigan, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Monroe carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Monroe contains 45 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Monroe clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Monroe carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Monroe, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 6.6 to 8.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Monroe carries 18 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 5,518 MW of requested capacity. In Monroe, 100 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Monroe shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Monroe, the USGS 2015 compilation records 1,819.44 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Monroe sits within commuting range of roughly 124,132 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources