Power by county
Tuscaloosa, AL: data center power outlook
For Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the public grid picture begins with its place in an area outside an organized wholesale market and the infrastructure mapped inside the county. Grid access across Tuscaloosa tops out at 230 kV, over a footprint of 119 mapped substations. In Tuscaloosa, 2 utilities share the retail territory, among them ALABAMA POWER CO, BLACK WARRIOR ELEC MEMBER CORP.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- ALABAMA POWER CO, BLACK WARRIOR ELEC MEMBER CORP
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 119
- 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
- 2 serving utilities: 8.0 to 9.9¢/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
- 843 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 42 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 41,583 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 Tuscaloosa
For Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Tuscaloosa is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Tuscaloosa carries 119 substations, a dense footprint across the county.
No organized wholesale market covers Tuscaloosa, Alabama, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.7 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Tuscaloosa at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Tuscaloosa that publish a rate range 2 serving utilities: 8.0 to 9.9¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.
For Tuscaloosa, Alabama, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Tuscaloosa, via its balancing authority, is 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Tuscaloosa at 42.02 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Tuscaloosa, about 41,583 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.
Read the Tuscaloosa figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Tuscaloosa, Alabama qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Tuscaloosa, Alabama traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.