Geneva, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, CHOCTAWHATCHE ELEC COOP, INC, CITY OF DOTHAN - (AL), CITY OF HARTFORD - (AL), COVINGTON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES CO, PEA RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, WEST FLORIDA EL COOP ASSN, INC, WIREGRASS ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

46

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 9 serving utilities: 7.5 to 9.4¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

22,701 employed in construction within ~120 km (20 of 23 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 Geneva

What follows is a screening-grade read of Geneva, Alabama, built only from named public datasets. At 230 kV, Geneva sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer packs 46 substations into Geneva, a dense spread of options.

Geneva, Alabama is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Geneva, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.7 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Geneva that report an industrial rate span 4 of 9 serving utilities: 7.5 to 9.4¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Geneva, Alabama in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Geneva, Alabama has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. For Geneva, Alabama, eGRID rates no output for the covering balancing authority, and the carbon field stays empty.

Geneva withdrew 8.87 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 22,701 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Geneva (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources