Ontonagon, MI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BAYFIELD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF CRYSTAL FALLS, CITY OF WAKEFIELD - (MI), DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY, NORTHERN STATES POWER CO, ONTONAGON COUNTY R E A, UPPER MICHIGAN ENERGY RESOURCES CORP., UPPER PENINSULA POWER COMPANY, WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

69 kV

Substations in county

11

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 9 serving utilities: 5.3 to 7.6¢/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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

4,148 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 Ontonagon

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Ontonagon, Michigan that bears on a large new load. Ontonagon reaches 69 kV at most, which is sub-transmission and typically feeds distribution circuits. Ontonagon carries 11 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Ontonagon, the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.6 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Ontonagon at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Ontonagon that publish a rate range 4 of 9 serving utilities: 5.3 to 7.6¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Ontonagon, Michigan shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Ontonagon, Michigan, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Ontonagon, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Ontonagon at 0.61 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Ontonagon, about 4,148 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 Ontonagon figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Ontonagon, Michigan 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 Ontonagon, Michigan turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Ontonagon, Michigan traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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