Fulton, IN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC, FULTON COUNTY RURAL E M C, HEARTLAND REMC, KOSCIUSKO COUNTY RURAL E M C, MARSHALL COUNTY RURAL E M C, MIAMI-CASS COUNTY RURAL E M C, NOBLE COUNTY R E M C, NORTHERN INDIANA PUB SERV CO

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

3

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

5 of 8 serving utilities: 6.3 to 10.8¢/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, 10 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

80,873 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 Fulton

What follows is a screening-grade read of Fulton, Indiana, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Fulton extends to 765 kV, the extra-high-voltage class. The mapped footprint in Fulton, Indiana is sparse, 3 substations, so options cluster at those points.

Interconnection over Fulton runs through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Fulton, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.9 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Fulton that report an industrial rate span 5 of 8 serving utilities: 6.3 to 10.8¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Fulton, totalling 10 MW of requested capacity. Nothing is on file for Fulton, Indiana in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Fulton sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Fulton withdrew 10.17 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 80,873 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Fulton (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Fulton, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Fulton, Indiana describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Fulton, Indiana, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Fulton, Indiana refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources