Cook, MN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ARROWHEAD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF GRAND MARAIS - (MN), COOPERATIVE L&P ASSN LAKE COUNTY

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

14

Industrial retail rate

9.3¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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

1 projects, 18 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

144 employed in construction within ~120 km (1 of 2 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 Cook

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Cook, Minnesota. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Cook at its strongest mapped point. Cook contains 14 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Cook clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Cook carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.3 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide.

Cook carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 18 MW of requested capacity. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Cook, Minnesota, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Cook shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Cook, the USGS 2015 compilation records 157.03 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Cook sits within commuting range of roughly 144 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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