Sawyer, WI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARRON ELECTRIC COOP, BAYFIELD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, EAST CENTRAL ENERGY, JUMP RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC, NORTH CENTRAL POWER CO INC, NORTHERN STATES POWER CO, PRICE ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

18

Industrial retail rate

8.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 7 serving utilities: 8.2 to 9.6¢/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

1 projects, 244 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

7,296 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 Sawyer

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Sawyer, Wisconsin. At 345 kV, Sawyer carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Sawyer contains 18 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Sawyer clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Sawyer carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Sawyer, the per-utility spread is 3 of 7 serving utilities: 8.2 to 9.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Sawyer carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 243.6 MW of requested capacity. For Sawyer, Wisconsin, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Sawyer shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Sawyer, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.42 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Sawyer sits within commuting range of roughly 7,296 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources