Chickasaw, IA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BUTLER COUNTY RURAL ELEC COOP - (IA), CITY OF ALTA VISTA- (IA), CITY OF FREDERICKSBURG - (IA), CITY OF LAWLER - (IA), CITY OF NEW HAMPTON - (IA), HEARTLAND POWER COOP, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT CO, MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO, MIENERGY COOPERATIVE

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

3

Industrial retail rate

7.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.7¢/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, 200 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

18,561 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 Chickasaw

The material below frames Chickasaw, Iowa for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Chickasaw extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped footprint in Chickasaw, Iowa is sparse, 3 substations, so options cluster at those points.

Interconnection over Chickasaw runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Chickasaw, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.2 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Chickasaw that report an industrial rate span 5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Chickasaw, totalling 200 MW of requested capacity. Nothing is on file for Chickasaw, Iowa in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Chickasaw sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Chickasaw withdrew 4.39 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 18,561 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Chickasaw (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources