Mississippi, MO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AMEREN ILLINOIS COMPANY, CITY OF BARDWELL - (KY), GIBSON ELECTRIC MEMBERS CORP, JACKSON PURCHASE ENERGY CORPORATION, KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO, SEMO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ELEC COOP, UNION ELECTRIC CO - (MO)

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

4

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

2 of 8 serving utilities: 7.4 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

1,285 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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

17,044 employed in construction within ~120 km (31 of 38 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 Mississippi

Everything here about Mississippi, Missouri comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Mississippi reaches 161 kV at its highest mapped voltage, a transmission class that can carry a substantial interconnection where capacity exists. Mississippi, Missouri carries a thin 4-substation footprint in the mapped layer, concentrating where a connection could land.

Mississippi falls inside the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Mississippi is the 8.4 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Mississippi, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 2 of 8 serving utilities: 7.4 to 7.6¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Across the covered feeds, Mississippi, Missouri carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Mississippi, Missouri, which is a national filing and so a real zero. The balancing authority covering Mississippi carries a grid carbon intensity of 1,285.192 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Mississippi are 102.56 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Mississippi, some 17,044 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Mississippi are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Mississippi, 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 Mississippi, Missouri is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Mississippi, Missouri, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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