Red Willow, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF INDIANOLA - (NE), MCCOOK PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, MIDWEST ENERGY INC, NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, PRAIRIE LAND ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWEST PUBLIC POWER DIST, TWIN VALLEYS PUBLIC POWER DIST, VILLAGE OF BARTLEY - (NE)

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

24

Industrial retail rate

8.0¢/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: 4.5 to 10.0¢/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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

2,334 employed in construction within ~120 km (14 of 20 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 Red Willow

What follows is a screening-grade read of Red Willow, Nebraska, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Red Willow extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 24 substations into Red Willow, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Red Willow runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Red Willow, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Red Willow that report an industrial rate span 2 of 8 serving utilities: 4.5 to 10.0¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Red Willow, Nebraska, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Red Willow, Nebraska has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Red Willow sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Red Willow withdrew 40.18 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 2,334 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Red Willow (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

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