West Carroll, LA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ASHLEY CHICOT ELEC COOP, INC, ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, ENTERGY LOUISIANA LLC, NORTHEAST LOUISIANA POWER COOP INC.

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

4

Industrial retail rate

6.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 4 serving utilities: 5.2 to 19.4¢/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

4 projects, 449 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

12,527 employed in construction within ~120 km (20 of 26 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 West Carroll

What follows is a screening-grade read of West Carroll, Louisiana, built only from named public datasets. At 115 kV, West Carroll sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. West Carroll, Louisiana carries a thin 4-substation footprint in the mapped layer, concentrating where a connection could land.

Interconnection over West Carroll runs through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) and its rules. For West Carroll, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.2 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving West Carroll that report an industrial rate span 2 of 4 serving utilities: 5.2 to 19.4¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 4 projects for West Carroll, totalling 449 MW of requested capacity. West Carroll, Louisiana has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. West Carroll sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

West Carroll withdrew 13.33 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 12,527 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of West Carroll (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For West Carroll, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for West Carroll, Louisiana describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in West Carroll, Louisiana, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for West Carroll, Louisiana refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources