Pike, AL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALABAMA POWER CO, CITY OF BRUNDIDGE - (AL), CITY OF TROY - (AL), COVINGTON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DIXIE ELECTRIC COOP, PEA RIVER 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

19

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

6 of 7 serving utilities: 6.3 to 11.0¢/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

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

17,464 employed in construction within ~120 km (21 of 25 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 Pike

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Pike, Alabama. At 500 kV, Pike carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Pike contains 19 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

There is no organized wholesale market over Pike, Alabama; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Pike carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Pike, the per-utility spread is 6 of 7 serving utilities: 6.3 to 11.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Pike, Alabama, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Pike, Alabama, a real zero rather than a gap. The balancing authority over Pike, Alabama has no eGRID output rate, so carbon intensity is absent rather than estimated.

For Pike, the USGS 2015 compilation records 6.93 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Pike sits within commuting range of roughly 17,464 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources