Morrison, MN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALLETE, INC., CITY OF PIERZ - (MN), CITY OF RANDALL - (MN), CROW WING COOPERATIVE POWER & LIGHT COMP, EAST CENTRAL ENERGY, MILLE LACS ENERGY COOPERATIVE, STEARNS COOPERATIVE ELEC ASSN, TODD-WADENA ELECTRIC COOP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

19

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

5 of 8 serving utilities: 8.3 to 12.0¢/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, 424 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

26,894 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 Morrison

Read on for the public power picture of Morrison in Minnesota, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Morrison at its strongest mapped point. Morrison contains 19 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Morrison clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Morrison carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.3 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Morrison, the per-utility spread is 5 of 8 serving utilities: 8.3 to 12.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Morrison carries 3 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 424 MW of requested capacity. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Morrison, Minnesota in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Morrison shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Morrison, the USGS 2015 compilation records 17.75 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Morrison sits within commuting range of roughly 26,894 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources