Vernon, MO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARTON COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, EVERGY KANSAS CENTRAL, INC, EVERGY KANSAS SOUTH, INC, EVERGY MISSOURI WEST, HEARTLAND RURAL ELEC COOP, INC, OSAGE VALLEY ELEC COOP ASSN, SAC-OSAGE ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

10

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

1 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9¢/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

1,285 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

20,023 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 Vernon

Read on for the public power picture of Vernon in Missouri, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Vernon at its strongest mapped point. Vernon contains 10 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Vernon clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Vernon carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Vernon, the per-utility spread is 1 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Vernon, Missouri has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Vernon, Missouri in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Vernon shows 1,285.192 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Vernon, the USGS 2015 compilation records 10.78 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Vernon sits within commuting range of roughly 20,023 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources