Lake of the Woods, MN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF BAUDETTE - (MN), CITY OF WARROAD, NORTH STAR ELECTRIC COOP, INC, ROSEAU ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

10

Industrial retail rate

9.3¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,753 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 Lake of the Woods

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Lake of the Woods, Minnesota that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Lake of the Woods is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Lake of the Woods carries 10 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Lake of the Woods, the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 9.3 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Lake of the Woods at the state level rather than as a county rate.

Lake of the Woods, Minnesota shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Lake of the Woods, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Lake of the Woods at 1.19 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Lake of the Woods, about 1,753 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Lake of the Woods figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Lake of the Woods, Minnesota qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Lake of the Woods, Minnesota turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Lake of the Woods, Minnesota traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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