Benton, MS: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOLIVAR ENERGY AUTHORITY, CHICKASAW ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF HOLLY SPRINGS, CITY OF NEW ALBANY - (MS), NORTH EAST MISSISSIPPI EPA, TIPPAH ELECTRIC POWER ASSN

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

3

Industrial retail rate

7.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 6 serving utilities: 6.3 to 10.3¢/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

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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

36,027 employed in construction within ~120 km (30 of 32 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 Benton

Read on for the public power picture of Benton in Mississippi, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Benton carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Benton, Mississippi contains 3 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

Benton, Mississippi lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Benton carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Benton, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 6.3 to 10.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Benton, Mississippi, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Benton, Mississippi, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Benton shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Benton, the USGS 2015 compilation records 5.26 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Benton sits within commuting range of roughly 36,027 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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