Muskingum, OH: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

FRONTIER POWER COMPANY, GUERNSEY-MUSKINGUM EL COOP INC, LICKING RURAL ELECTRIC INC, OHIO POWER CO, SOUTH CENTRAL POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

33

Industrial retail rate

8.5¢/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: 2.6 to 14.2¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

85,835 employed in construction within ~120 km (38 of 39 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 Muskingum

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Muskingum, Ohio. At 765 kV, Muskingum carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Muskingum contains 33 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Muskingum clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Muskingum carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Muskingum, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.6 to 14.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Muskingum, Ohio, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Muskingum, Ohio, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Muskingum shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Muskingum, the USGS 2015 compilation records 20.97 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Muskingum sits within commuting range of roughly 85,835 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Muskingum here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Muskingum, Ohio settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Muskingum, Ohio requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Muskingum, Ohio are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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