Sheboygan, WI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF PLYMOUTH - (WI), CITY OF SHEBOYGAN FALLS - (WI), WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO, WISCONSIN POWER & LIGHT CO, WPPI ENERGY

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

44

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 5 serving utilities: 7.8 to 9.3¢/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

6 projects, 725 MW

Proposed generation

99 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

82,435 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 Sheboygan

Read on for the public power picture of Sheboygan in Wisconsin, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Sheboygan carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Sheboygan contains 44 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Sheboygan, Wisconsin, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Sheboygan carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Sheboygan, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.8 to 9.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Sheboygan carries 6 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 725 MW of requested capacity. In Sheboygan, 99 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Sheboygan shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Sheboygan, the USGS 2015 compilation records 312.94 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Sheboygan sits within commuting range of roughly 82,435 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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