Iowa, WI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

RICHLAND ELECTRIC COOP, ROCK ENERGY COOPERATIVE, SCENIC RIVERS ENERGY COOP, VILLAGE OF MUSCODA - (WI), WISCONSIN POWER & LIGHT CO, WPPI ENERGY

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

18

Industrial retail rate

8.9¢/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: 5.5 to 12.1¢/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

4 projects, 639 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

44,862 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 Iowa

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Iowa, Wisconsin. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Iowa at its strongest mapped point. Iowa contains 18 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Iowa clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Iowa carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Iowa, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.5 to 12.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Iowa carries 4 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 639 MW of requested capacity. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Iowa, Wisconsin in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Iowa shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Iowa, the USGS 2015 compilation records 8.9 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Iowa sits within commuting range of roughly 44,862 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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