Meade, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF TELL CITY - (IN), CITY OF TROY - (IN), DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC, EAST KENTUCKY POWER COOP, INC, HARRISON COUNTY RURAL E M C, LOUISVILLE GAS & ELECTRIC CO, MEADE COUNTY RURAL E C C, NOLIN RURAL ELECTRIC COOP CORP, SOUTHERN INDIANA R E C, INC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 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 9 serving utilities: 4.1 to 7.5¢/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

3 projects, 340 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

64,221 employed in construction within ~120 km (43 of 47 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 Meade

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Meade, Kentucky that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Meade is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Meade carries 13 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Meade, the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Meade at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Meade that publish a rate range 3 of 9 serving utilities: 4.1 to 7.5¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Meade are 3 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 340 MW of requested capacity. For Meade, Kentucky, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Meade, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Meade at 10.82 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Meade, about 64,221 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 Meade figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Meade, Kentucky 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 Meade, Kentucky turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Meade, Kentucky traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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