Putnam, IL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AMEREN ILLINOIS COMPANY, COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO, CORN BELT ENERGY CORPORATION

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

8

Industrial retail rate

10.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 serving utilities: 1.6 to 7.4¢/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

8 projects, 767 MW

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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

47,814 employed in construction within ~120 km (25 of 26 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 Putnam

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Putnam, Illinois. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Putnam at its strongest mapped point. Putnam contains 8 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Putnam clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Putnam carries the state industrial average retail rate of 10.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Putnam, the per-utility spread is 3 serving utilities: 1.6 to 7.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Putnam carries 8 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 767.1 MW of requested capacity. For Putnam, Illinois, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Putnam shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Putnam, the USGS 2015 compilation records 200.34 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Putnam sits within commuting range of roughly 47,814 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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