Yukon-Koyukuk, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AKIACHAK NATIVE COMMUNITY ELECTRIC, ALASKA POWER AND TELEPHONE CO, ALASKA VILLAGE ELEC COOP, INC, ANIAK LIGHT & POWER CO INC, BARROW UTILS & 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, IPNATCHIAQ ELECTRIC COMPANY, KOTZEBUE ELECTRIC ASSN INC, KUIGGLUUM KALLUGVIA, KWIG POWER COMPANY, MCGRATH LIGHT & POWER CO, MIDDLE KUSKOKWIM ELEC COOP INC, NAPAKIAK IRCINRAQ POWER CO, NOME JOINT UTILITY SYSTEMS, NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH POWER & LIGHT, TANANA POWER CO INC, TDX MANLEY GENERATING LLC, TDX NORTH SLOPE GENERATING CO, TUNTUTULIAK COMM SERVICES ASSN, UNALAKLEET VALLEY ELEC COOP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

1

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 26 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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

21 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 Yukon-Koyukuk

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska. Transmission-class access reaches 138 kV in Yukon-Koyukuk at its strongest mapped point. Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska contains 1 mapped substation, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

There is no organized wholesale market over Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Yukon-Koyukuk carries the state industrial average retail rate of 20.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Yukon-Koyukuk, the per-utility spread is 1 of 26 serving utilities: 21.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, a real zero rather than a gap. The balancing authority over Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska has no eGRID output rate, so carbon intensity is absent rather than estimated.

For Yukon-Koyukuk, the USGS 2015 compilation records 0.33 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Yukon-Koyukuk sits within commuting range of roughly 21 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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