Cabell, WV: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

APPALACHIAN POWER CO, OHIO POWER CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

21

Industrial retail rate

8.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.8¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

22,541 employed in construction within ~120 km (35 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 Cabell

Read on for the public power picture of Cabell in West Virginia, assembled for data center siting. At 765 kV, Cabell carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Cabell contains 21 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Cabell clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Cabell carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Cabell, the per-utility spread is 1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Cabell, West Virginia shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Cabell, West Virginia, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Cabell shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Cabell, the USGS 2015 compilation records 13.69 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Cabell sits within commuting range of roughly 22,541 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Cabell here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Cabell, West Virginia 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 Cabell, West Virginia requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Cabell, West Virginia are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources