Fairbanks North Star, 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

22

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

3,287 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 Fairbanks North Star

For Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Fairbanks North Star is 138 kV, squarely transmission class. Fairbanks North Star carries 22 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

No organized wholesale market covers Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. The state industrial average retail rate is 20.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Fairbanks North Star at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Fairbanks North Star that publish a rate range 1 of 12 serving utilities: 21.9¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Fairbanks North Star, Alaska 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 Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Fairbanks North Star, via its balancing authority, is 829.091 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Fairbanks North Star at 70.52 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Fairbanks North Star, about 3,287 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Fairbanks North Star figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Fairbanks North Star, Alaska qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Fairbanks North Star, Alaska turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Fairbanks North Star, Alaska traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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