Lowndes, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, CENTRAL ALABAMA ELECTRIC COOP, PIONEER ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (AL), SOUTH ALABAMA ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

16

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

3 of 4 serving utilities: 8.0 to 12.2¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

12,323 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 Lowndes

Everything here about Lowndes, Alabama comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Lowndes reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 16 substations mapped, Lowndes has a moderate spread of interconnection points.

Sitting outside any organized market, Lowndes, Alabama handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. The rate for Lowndes is the 7.7 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Lowndes, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 3 of 4 serving utilities: 8.0 to 12.2¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Across the covered feeds, Lowndes, Alabama carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Lowndes, Alabama has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. eGRID carries no output rate for the balancing authority above Lowndes, Alabama, leaving carbon intensity blank rather than guessed.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Lowndes are 13.19 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Lowndes, some 12,323 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Lowndes are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Lowndes, Alabama together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Lowndes, Alabama is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Lowndes, Alabama, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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