Kenai Peninsula, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AKIACHAK NATIVE COMMUNITY ELECTRIC, ALASKA VILLAGE ELEC COOP, INC, ANIAK LIGHT & POWER CO INC, BIRCH CREEK VILLAGE ELEC UTIL - (AK), CHITINA ELECTRIC INC, CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSN INC, CITY OF SEWARD - (AK), COPPER VALLEY ELEC ASSN, INC, CORDOVA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, HOMER ELECTRIC ASSN INC, I-N-N ELECTRIC COOP, INC, KODIAK ELECTRIC ASSN INC, KOKHANOK VILLAGE COUNCIL, KUIGGLUUM KALLUGVIA, KWIG POWER COMPANY, MIDDLE KUSKOKWIM ELEC COOP INC, NAPAKIAK IRCINRAQ POWER CO, TATITLEK ELECTRIC UTILITY, TUNTUTULIAK COMM SERVICES ASSN

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

24

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

3 of 19 serving utilities: 12.4 to 16.7¢/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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,101 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 Kenai Peninsula

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Kenai Peninsula at its strongest mapped point. Kenai Peninsula contains 24 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

There is no organized wholesale market over Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Kenai Peninsula carries the state industrial average retail rate of 20.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Kenai Peninsula, the per-utility spread is 3 of 19 serving utilities: 12.4 to 16.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. No eGRID carbon rate exists for the balancing authority over Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, so none is shown.

For Kenai Peninsula, the USGS 2015 compilation records 10.24 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Kenai Peninsula sits within commuting range of roughly 1,101 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources