St. Joseph, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF STURGIS, CONSUMERS ENERGY CO, LAGRANGE COUNTY RURAL E M C, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, NOBLE COUNTY R E M C, NORTHERN INDIANA PUB SERV CO, VILLAGE OF UNION CITY - (MI), WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

32

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

2 of 8 serving utilities: 6.6 to 10.5¢/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

3 projects, 471 MW

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

53,965 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 St. Joseph

The material below frames St. Joseph, Michigan for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. At 138 kV, St. Joseph sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer packs 32 substations into St. Joseph, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over St. Joseph runs through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) and its rules. For St. Joseph, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.6 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving St. Joseph that report an industrial rate span 2 of 8 serving utilities: 6.6 to 10.5¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 3 projects for St. Joseph, totalling 471 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for St. Joseph, Michigan, which is a national filing and so a real zero. St. Joseph sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

St. Joseph withdrew 56.38 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 53,965 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of St. Joseph (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources