Randolph, MO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOONE ELECTRIC COOP, EVERGY MISSOURI WEST, HOWARD ELECTRIC COOP, MACON ELECTRIC COOP, UNION ELECTRIC CO - (MO)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

17

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

4 of 5 serving utilities: 6.9 to 10.1¢/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

6 projects, 2,135 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

1,285 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

14,498 employed in construction within ~120 km (28 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 Randolph

The material below frames Randolph, Missouri for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Randolph extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 17 substations across Randolph, a moderate density.

Because Randolph, Missouri sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. For Randolph, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.4 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Randolph that report an industrial rate span 4 of 5 serving utilities: 6.9 to 10.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 6 projects for Randolph, totalling 2,135 MW of requested capacity. Randolph, Missouri has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Randolph sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 1,285.192 lb CO2 per MWh.

Randolph withdrew 715.08 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 14,498 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Randolph (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Randolph, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Randolph, Missouri describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Randolph, Missouri, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Randolph, Missouri refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources