San Bernardino, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AHA MACAV POWER SERVICE, ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE CO, BEAR VALLEY ELECTRIC SERVICE, CITY OF BANNING - (CA), CITY OF COLTON - (CA), CITY OF INDUSTRY, CITY OF NEEDLES - (CA), CITY OF RIVERSIDE - (CA), CITY OF VICTORVILLE - (CA), COLORADO RIVER COMM OF NEVADA, COLORADO RIVER INDIAN IRR PROJ, IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT, MCMULLEN VALLEY WATER C&D DIST, MOHAVE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., NEVADA POWER CO, RANCHO CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL UTILITY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, UNS ELECTRIC, INC, VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

276

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

7 of 20 serving utilities: 2.9 to 20.9¢/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

1,500 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

41,627 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 San Bernardino

Below, San Bernardino in California is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. San Bernardino reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 276 substations mapped, San Bernardino offers interconnection points across many locations.

San Bernardino falls inside the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for San Bernardino is the 21.6 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across San Bernardino, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 7 of 20 serving utilities: 2.9 to 20.9¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for San Bernardino, California in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. San Bernardino has 1,499.5 MW of planned or under-construction generation on file in EIA-860M. The balancing authority covering San Bernardino carries a grid carbon intensity of 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in San Bernardino are 437.87 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around San Bernardino, some 41,627 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for San Bernardino are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for San Bernardino, California together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for San Bernardino, California is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For San Bernardino, California, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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