Madison, MO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACK RIVER ELECTRIC COOP - (MO), CITIZENS ELECTRIC CORPORATION - (MO), CITY OF FREDERICKTOWN - (MO), UNION ELECTRIC CO - (MO)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

5

Industrial retail rate

8.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 4 serving utilities: 6.3 to 7.6¢/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

1 projects, 75 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

18,870 employed in construction within ~120 km (24 of 29 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 Madison

For Madison, Missouri, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Madison is 161 kV, squarely transmission class. Across Madison, Missouri, the mapped layer holds just 5 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

There is no organized wholesale market over Madison, Missouri; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.4 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Madison at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Madison that publish a rate range 3 of 4 serving utilities: 6.3 to 7.6¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Madison are 1 interconnection-queue project, totalling 75 MW of requested capacity. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Madison, Missouri in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. Grid carbon intensity for Madison, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Madison at 1.45 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Madison, about 18,870 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 Madison figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Madison, Missouri 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 Madison, Missouri turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Madison, Missouri traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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