Power by county
Modoc, CA: data center power outlook
The grid around Modoc, California is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Modoc the mapped layer shows 28 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 500 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Modoc is split among 5 utilities, among them BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., PACIFICORP.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., PACIFICORP, SURPRISE VALLEY ELECTRIFICATION, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 500 kV
- Substations in county
- 28
- 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
- 4 of 5 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
- 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
- 307 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 174 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 87 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 Modoc
Read on for the public power picture of Modoc in California, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Modoc carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Modoc contains 28 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.
No organized wholesale market covers Modoc, California, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Modoc carries the state industrial average retail rate of 21.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Modoc, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
Modoc, California 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 Modoc, California, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Modoc shows 306.81 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Modoc, the USGS 2015 compilation records 173.65 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Modoc sits within commuting range of roughly 87 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Modoc here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Modoc, 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 Modoc, California requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Modoc, California are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.