Jackson, IN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY RURAL E M C, DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC, HARRISON COUNTY RURAL E M C, JACKSON COUNTY RURAL E M C - (IN), JOHNSON COUNTY RURAL E M C, UTILITIES DIST-WESTERN IN REMC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

22

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

6 serving utilities: 7.9 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

2 projects, 350 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

104,104 employed in construction within ~120 km (46 of 49 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 Jackson

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Jackson, Indiana that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Jackson is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Jackson carries 22 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Jackson, the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Jackson at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Jackson that publish a rate range 6 serving utilities: 7.9 to 11.4¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Jackson are 2 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 350 MW of requested capacity. For Jackson, Indiana, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Jackson, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Jackson at 9.97 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Jackson, about 104,104 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 Jackson figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Jackson, Indiana 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 Jackson, Indiana turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Jackson, Indiana traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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