Shelby, IA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF SHELBY - (IA), HARLAN MUNICIPAL UTILITIES - (IA), HARRISON COUNTY RRL ELEC COOP, MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO, NISHNABOTNA VALLEY R E C, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WESTERN IOWA POWER COOP

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

35

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

1 of 7 serving utilities: 6.0¢/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

None on record

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

43,272 employed in construction within ~120 km (31 of 32 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 Shelby

What follows is a screening-grade read of Shelby, Iowa, built only from named public datasets. At 161 kV, Shelby sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer packs 35 substations into Shelby, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Shelby runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Shelby, 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 Shelby that report an industrial rate span 1 of 7 serving utilities: 6.0¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Shelby, Iowa in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Shelby, Iowa, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Shelby sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Shelby withdrew 3.92 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 43,272 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Shelby (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources