Piscataquis, ME: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL MAINE POWER CO, EASTERN MAINE ELECTRIC COOP, VERSANT POWER

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

7

Industrial retail rate

15.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 serving utilities: 5.0 to 13.2¢/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

541 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

6,798 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 Piscataquis

The material below frames Piscataquis, Maine for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. At 115 kV, Piscataquis sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 7 substations across Piscataquis, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Piscataquis runs through the ISONE market (ISO New England) and its rules. For Piscataquis, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 15.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Piscataquis that report an industrial rate span 3 serving utilities: 5.0 to 13.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Piscataquis, Maine, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Nothing is on file for Piscataquis, Maine in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Piscataquis sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

Piscataquis withdrew 1.68 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 6,798 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Piscataquis (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources