Van Buren, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF NILES - (MI), CITY OF SOUTH HAVEN - (MI), CONSUMERS ENERGY CO, MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE, VILLAGE OF PAW PAW - (MI), WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

20

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: 6.6¢/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

10 projects, 4,481 MW

Proposed generation

85 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

67,756 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 Van Buren

Read on for the public power picture of Van Buren in Michigan, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Van Buren carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Van Buren contains 20 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Van Buren clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Van Buren carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Van Buren, the per-utility spread is 1 of 6 serving utilities: 6.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Van Buren carries 10 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 4,481 MW of requested capacity. In Van Buren, 85 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Van Buren shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Van Buren, the USGS 2015 compilation records 156.21 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Van Buren sits within commuting range of roughly 67,756 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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