Orange, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF ANAHEIM - (CA), COLORADO RIVER INDIAN IRR PROJ, SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC CO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

190

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 16.4¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

348,813 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 Orange

The material below frames Orange, California for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Orange extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 190 substations into Orange, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Orange runs through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Orange, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 21.6 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Orange that report an industrial rate span 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.9 to 16.4¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Orange, California, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Orange, California, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Orange sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

Orange withdrew 480.07 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 348,813 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Orange (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Orange, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Orange, California describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Orange, California, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Orange, California refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources