Lac qui Parle, MN: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AGRALITE ELECTRIC COOP, CITY OF MADISON - (MN), CITY OF ORTONVILLE - (MN), H-D ELECTRIC COOP INC, MINNESOTA VALLEY COOP L&P ASSN, NORTHERN STATES POWER CO - MINNESOTA, NORTHWESTERN ENERGY - (SD), OTTER TAIL POWER CO, SIOUX VALLEY SW ELEC COOP, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

23

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

5 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 to 9.8¢/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

2 projects, 500 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

10,172 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 Lac qui Parle

For Lac qui Parle, Minnesota, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Lac qui Parle is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Lac qui Parle carries 23 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Lac qui Parle, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 9.3 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Lac qui Parle at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Lac qui Parle that publish a rate range 5 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 to 9.8¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Lac qui Parle are 2 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 500 MW of requested capacity. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Lac qui Parle, Minnesota in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. Grid carbon intensity for Lac qui Parle, via its balancing authority, is 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Lac qui Parle at 3.76 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Lac qui Parle, about 10,172 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 Lac qui Parle figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Lac qui Parle, Minnesota 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 Lac qui Parle, Minnesota turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Lac qui Parle, Minnesota traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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