Whiteside, IL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AMEREN ILLINOIS COMPANY, CITY OF ALBANY - (IL), CITY OF ROCK FALLS - (IL), COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO, EASTERN IOWA LIGHT & POWER COOP, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT CO, JO-CARROLL ENERGY, INC, MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO, WPPI ENERGY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

13

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

4 of 9 serving utilities: 1.6 to 5.1¢/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

1 projects, 300 MW

Proposed generation

1 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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

38,596 employed in construction within ~120 km (28 of 29 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 Whiteside

Read on for the public power picture of Whiteside in Illinois, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Whiteside carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Whiteside contains 13 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Whiteside clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Whiteside carries the state industrial average retail rate of 10.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Whiteside, the per-utility spread is 4 of 9 serving utilities: 1.6 to 5.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Whiteside carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 300 MW of requested capacity. In Whiteside, 1 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Whiteside shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Whiteside, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.91 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Whiteside sits within commuting range of roughly 38,596 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources