Inyo, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COLORADO RIVER COMM OF NEVADA, COLORADO RIVER INDIAN IRR PROJ, KINGS RIVER CONSERVATION DIST, LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

1000 kV

Substations in county

29

Industrial retail rate

21.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 8 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/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

1,000 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

369 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

280 employed in construction within ~120 km (1 of 2 counties reporting)A 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 Inyo

Read on for the public power picture of Inyo in California, assembled for data center siting. At 1,000 kV, Inyo carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Inyo contains 29 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Inyo clears through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Inyo carries the state industrial average retail rate of 21.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Inyo, the per-utility spread is 5 of 8 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Inyo, California has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Inyo, 1,000 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Inyo shows 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Inyo, the USGS 2015 compilation records 56.31 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Inyo sits within commuting range of roughly 280 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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