Butler, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, COVINGTON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PIONEER ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (AL), SOUTH ALABAMA ELEC COOP, INC, SOUTHERN PINE ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

12

Industrial retail rate

7.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 5 serving utilities: 8.0 to 11.0¢/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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

16,011 employed in construction within ~120 km (21 of 22 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 Butler

Read on for the public power picture of Butler in Alabama, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Butler at its strongest mapped point. Butler contains 12 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

No organized wholesale market covers Butler, Alabama, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Butler carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Butler, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 8.0 to 11.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Butler, Alabama, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Butler, Alabama, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. The covering balancing authority for Butler, Alabama has no eGRID output rate, so the carbon field is left empty.

For Butler, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.06 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Butler sits within commuting range of roughly 16,011 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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