Dunklin, MO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF KENNETT - (MO), CITY OF MALDEN - (MO), CITY WATER AND LIGHT PLANT, CLAY COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP CORP, CRAIGHEAD ELECTRIC COOP CORP, ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ELECTRIC CO, OZARK BORDER ELECTRIC COOP, PEMISCOT-DUNKLIN ELEC COOP INC, SEMO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, UNION ELECTRIC CO - (MO)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

21

Industrial retail rate

8.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 11 serving utilities: 7.4 to 8.9¢/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, 350 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

518 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

15,648 employed in construction within ~120 km (26 of 31 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 Dunklin

Everything here about Dunklin, Missouri comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Dunklin reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 21 substations mapped, Dunklin offers interconnection points across many locations.

Dunklin, Missouri is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. The rate for Dunklin is the 8.4 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Dunklin, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 3 of 11 serving utilities: 7.4 to 8.9¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Dunklin has 2 interconnection-queue projects on record, totalling 350 MW of requested capacity. Nothing is on file for Dunklin, Missouri in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Dunklin carries a grid carbon intensity of 518.094 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Dunklin are 184.7 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Dunklin, some 15,648 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Dunklin are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Dunklin, Missouri together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Dunklin, Missouri is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Dunklin, Missouri, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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