Van Buren, IA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ACCESS ENERGY COOP, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT CO, KEOSAUQUA MUNICIPAL LIGHT & PWR, LEWIS COUNTY RURAL E C A, SOUTHERN IOWA ELEC COOP, INC, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP ASSN (MO), UNION ELECTRIC CO - (MO)

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

69 kV

Substations in county

11

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

2 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9 to 8.2¢/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

1,285 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

14,027 employed in construction within ~120 km (31 of 36 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 Van Buren

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Van Buren, Iowa that bears on a large new load. Van Buren reaches 69 kV at most, which is sub-transmission and typically feeds distribution circuits. Van Buren carries 11 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Van Buren, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.2 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Van Buren at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Van Buren that publish a rate range 2 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9 to 8.2¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Van Buren, Iowa shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. For Van Buren, Iowa, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Van Buren, via its balancing authority, is 1,285.192 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Van Buren at 1.33 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Van Buren, about 14,027 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 Van Buren figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Van Buren, Iowa 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 Van Buren, Iowa turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Van Buren, Iowa traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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