Marin, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

17

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

1 serving utility: 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

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

369 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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

160,039 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 Marin

Read on for the public power picture of Marin in California, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Marin at its strongest mapped point. Marin contains 17 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Marin clears through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Marin carries the state industrial average retail rate of 21.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Marin, the per-utility spread is 1 serving utility: 21.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Marin, California, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Marin, California, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Marin shows 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Marin, the USGS 2015 compilation records 70.83 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Marin sits within commuting range of roughly 160,039 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources