Anderson, KS: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

4 RIVERS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., CITY OF GARNETT - (KS), EVERGY KANSAS CENTRAL, INC, EVERGY KANSAS SOUTH, INC, EVERGY METRO, HEARTLAND RURAL ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

1

Industrial retail rate

8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.6 to 9.8¢/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

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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

41,011 employed in construction within ~120 km (26 of 27 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 Anderson

For Anderson, Kansas, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Anderson is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Anderson, Kansas contains 1 mapped substation, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

For Anderson, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Anderson at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Anderson that publish a rate range 3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.6 to 9.8¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Anderson, Kansas shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Anderson, Kansas in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. Grid carbon intensity for Anderson, via its balancing authority, is 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Anderson at 1.85 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Anderson, about 41,011 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 Anderson figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Anderson, Kansas 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 Anderson, Kansas turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Anderson, Kansas traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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