Ingham, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF LANSING - (MI), CONSUMERS ENERGY CO, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP (MI), WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOP

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

38

Industrial retail rate

8.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 5 serving utilities: 6.6 to 13.5¢/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

9 projects, 1,217 MW

Proposed generation

15 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

152,470 employed in construction within ~120 km (27 of 28 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 Ingham

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Ingham, Michigan. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Ingham at its strongest mapped point. Ingham contains 38 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Ingham clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Ingham carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Ingham, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 6.6 to 13.5¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Ingham carries 9 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 1,217 MW of requested capacity. In Ingham, 15 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Ingham shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Ingham, the USGS 2015 compilation records 103.1 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Ingham sits within commuting range of roughly 152,470 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources