Power by county
Pleasants, WV: data center power outlook
The grid around Pleasants, West Virginia is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in the PJM market (PJM Interconnection). Inside Pleasants the mapped layer shows 15 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 765 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Pleasants is split among 2 utilities, among them MONONGAHELA POWER CO, OHIO POWER CO.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- MONONGAHELA POWER CO, OHIO POWER CO
- ISO / market
- PJM (PJM Interconnection)
- Highest grid access
- 765 kV
- Substations in county
- 15
- 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: 7.7¢/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
- 30 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 24,194 employed in construction within ~120 km (38 of 41 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 Pleasants
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Pleasants, West Virginia. At 765 kV, Pleasants carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Pleasants contains 15 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
Wholesale activity over Pleasants clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Pleasants carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Pleasants, the per-utility spread is 1 of 2 serving utilities: 7.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Pleasants, West Virginia, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Pleasants, West Virginia, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Pleasants shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Pleasants, the USGS 2015 compilation records 29.68 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Pleasants sits within commuting range of roughly 24,194 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Pleasants here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Pleasants, 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 Pleasants, West Virginia requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Pleasants, West Virginia are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.