Lawrence, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, CITY OF ATHENS - (AL), CITY OF COURTLAND, CITY OF FLORENCE - (AL), CULLMAN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CULLMAN POWER BOARD, JOE WHEELER ELEC MEMBER CORP, SHEFFIELD UTILITIES

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

20

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

7 of 8 serving utilities: 5.5 to 9.6¢/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

393 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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

47,059 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 Lawrence

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Lawrence, Alabama. At 500 kV, Lawrence carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Lawrence contains 20 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

No organized wholesale market covers Lawrence, Alabama, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Lawrence carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Lawrence, the per-utility spread is 7 of 8 serving utilities: 5.5 to 9.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Lawrence, Alabama has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Lawrence, 393 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Lawrence shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Lawrence, the USGS 2015 compilation records 11.53 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Lawrence sits within commuting range of roughly 47,059 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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