Washburn, WI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARRON ELECTRIC COOP, BAYFIELD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF SPOONER - (WI), DAHLBERG LIGHT & POWER CO, EAST CENTRAL ENERGY, NORTHERN STATES POWER CO, NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN ELEC CO, POLK-BURNETT ELECTRIC COOP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 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

5 of 8 serving utilities: 8.2 to 28.1¢/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

None on record

Proposed generation

2 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

12,831 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 Washburn

What follows is a screening-grade read of Washburn, Wisconsin, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Washburn extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 18 substations across Washburn, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Washburn runs through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Washburn, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.9 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Washburn that report an industrial rate span 5 of 8 serving utilities: 8.2 to 28.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Washburn, Wisconsin in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 2.3 MW planned or under construction for Washburn. Washburn sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Washburn withdrew 5.28 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 12,831 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Washburn (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources