Ohio, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

KENERGY CORP, KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO, MEADE COUNTY RURAL E C C, PENNYRILE RURAL ELECTRIC COOP, WARREN RURAL ELEC COOP CORP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

28

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

5 serving utilities: 4.1 to 7.1¢/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

5 projects, 420 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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

39,821 employed in construction within ~120 km (41 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 Ohio

Read on for the public power picture of Ohio in Kentucky, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Ohio carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Ohio contains 28 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Ohio clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Ohio carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Ohio, the per-utility spread is 5 serving utilities: 4.1 to 7.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Ohio carries 5 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 419.76 MW of requested capacity. For Ohio, Kentucky, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Ohio shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Ohio, the USGS 2015 compilation records 10.62 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Ohio sits within commuting range of roughly 39,821 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Ohio here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Ohio, 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 Ohio, Kentucky requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Ohio, Kentucky are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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