Gallia, OH: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

APPALACHIAN POWER CO, BUCKEYE RURAL ELEC COOP, INC, OHIO POWER CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

15

Industrial retail rate

8.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.6 to 16.3¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

28,998 employed in construction within ~120 km (37 of 40 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 Gallia

What follows is a screening-grade read of Gallia, Ohio, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Gallia extends to 765 kV, the extra-high-voltage class. The mapped layer places 15 substations across Gallia, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Gallia runs through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) and its rules. For Gallia, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Gallia that report an industrial rate span 2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.6 to 16.3¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Gallia, Ohio, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Gallia, Ohio, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Gallia sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

Gallia withdrew 969.66 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 28,998 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Gallia (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Gallia, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Gallia, Ohio describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Gallia, Ohio, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Gallia, Ohio refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources