Dubois, IN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AGC DIVISION OF APGI INC, CITY OF HUNTINGBURG - (IN), CITY OF JASPER - (IN), CITY OF TELL CITY - (IN), CITY OF TROY - (IN), DAVIESS MARTIN COUNTY R E M C, DUBOIS RURAL ELECTRIC COOP INC, DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC, HARRISON COUNTY RURAL E M C, SOUTHERN INDIANA GAS & ELEC CO, SOUTHERN INDIANA R E C, INC, TOWN OF FERDINAND - (IN), WESTERN INDIANA ENERGY REMC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

34

Industrial retail rate

8.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

9 of 13 serving utilities: 6.0 to 11.4¢/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

9 projects, 732 MW

Proposed generation

200 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

60,463 employed in construction within ~120 km (41 of 43 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 Dubois

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Dubois, Indiana. At 765 kV, Dubois carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Dubois contains 34 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Dubois clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Dubois carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Dubois, the per-utility spread is 9 of 13 serving utilities: 6.0 to 11.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Dubois carries 9 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 732 MW of requested capacity. In Dubois, 200 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Dubois shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Dubois, the USGS 2015 compilation records 7.66 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Dubois sits within commuting range of roughly 60,463 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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