Montgomery, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, CENTRAL ALABAMA ELECTRIC COOP, DIXIE ELECTRIC COOP, SOUTH ALABAMA ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

88

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 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

160 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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

16,128 employed in construction within ~120 km (23 of 24 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 Montgomery

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Montgomery, Alabama. At 500 kV, Montgomery carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Montgomery contains 88 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

There is no organized wholesale market over Montgomery, Alabama; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Montgomery carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Montgomery, the per-utility spread is 4 serving utilities: 8.0 to 12.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Montgomery, Alabama has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Montgomery, 160 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. The covering balancing authority for Montgomery, Alabama has no eGRID output rate, so the carbon field is left empty.

For Montgomery, the USGS 2015 compilation records 38.84 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Montgomery sits within commuting range of roughly 16,128 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources