Denali, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALASKA POWER AND TELEPHONE CO, ALASKA VILLAGE ELEC COOP, INC, G & K, INC, GALENA ELECTRIC UTILITY, GOLD COUNTRY ENERGY, GOLDEN VALLEY ELEC ASSN INC, GWITCHYAA ZHEE UTILITY CO, HUGHES POWER & LIGHT CO, IGIUGIG ELECTRIC COMPANY, MCGRATH LIGHT & POWER CO, TANANA POWER CO INC, TDX MANLEY GENERATING LLC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

5

Industrial retail rate

20.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 12 serving utilities: 21.9¢/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

829 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

45 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 Denali

What follows is a screening-grade read of Denali, Alaska, built only from named public datasets. At 138 kV, Denali sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped footprint in Denali, Alaska is sparse, 5 substations, so options cluster at those points.

Sitting outside any organized market, Denali, Alaska handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Denali, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 20.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Denali that report an industrial rate span 1 of 12 serving utilities: 21.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Denali, Alaska in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Denali, Alaska, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Denali sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 829.091 lb CO2 per MWh.

Denali withdrew 32.63 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 45 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Denali (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Denali, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Denali, Alaska describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Denali, Alaska, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Denali, Alaska refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources