Crittenden, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AMEREN ILLINOIS COMPANY, JACKSON PURCHASE ENERGY CORPORATION, KENERGY CORP, KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO, SOUTHEASTERN IL ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

13

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.0 to 11.7¢/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, 30 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

1,894 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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

29,426 employed in construction within ~120 km (37 of 43 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 Crittenden

Read on for the public power picture of Crittenden in Kentucky, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Crittenden at its strongest mapped point. Crittenden contains 13 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

No organized wholesale market covers Crittenden, Kentucky, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Crittenden carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Crittenden, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.0 to 11.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Crittenden carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 30 MW of requested capacity. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Crittenden, Kentucky, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Crittenden shows 1,894.234 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Crittenden, the USGS 2015 compilation records 1.27 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Crittenden sits within commuting range of roughly 29,426 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Crittenden here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Crittenden, Kentucky settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Crittenden, Kentucky requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Crittenden, Kentucky are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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