Ramsey, ND: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOP, CAVALIER RURAL ELEC COOP, INC, NODAK ELECTRIC COOP INC, NORTHERN PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP, OTTER TAIL POWER CO, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

27

Industrial retail rate

7.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 6 serving utilities: 1.1 to 8.4¢/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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

4,244 employed in construction within ~120 km (13 of 15 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 Ramsey

Read on for the public power picture of Ramsey in North Dakota, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Ramsey at its strongest mapped point. Ramsey contains 27 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Ramsey clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Ramsey carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Ramsey, the per-utility spread is 5 of 6 serving utilities: 1.1 to 8.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Ramsey, North Dakota, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Ramsey, North Dakota, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Ramsey shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Ramsey, the USGS 2015 compilation records 0.34 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Ramsey sits within commuting range of roughly 4,244 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources