Power by county
Fayette, AL: data center power outlook
The grid around Fayette, Alabama is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Fayette the mapped layer shows 17 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 500 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Fayette is split among 2 utilities, among them ALABAMA POWER CO, TOMBIGBEE ELECTRIC COOP, INC.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- ALABAMA POWER CO, TOMBIGBEE ELECTRIC COOP, INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 500 kV
- Substations in county
- 17
- 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
- 1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.0¢/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
- 10 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
- 843 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 3.1 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 46,547 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 Fayette
Read on for the public power picture of Fayette in Alabama, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Fayette carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Fayette contains 17 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
There is no organized wholesale market over Fayette, Alabama; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Fayette carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Fayette, the per-utility spread is 1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Fayette, Alabama, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Fayette, 10 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Fayette shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Fayette, the USGS 2015 compilation records 3.05 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Fayette sits within commuting range of roughly 46,547 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Fayette here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Fayette, 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 Fayette, Alabama requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Fayette, Alabama are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.