Power by county
Bonner, ID: data center power outlook
The grid around Bonner, Idaho is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Bonner the mapped layer shows 37 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 230 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Bonner is split among 6 utilities, among them AVISTA CORP, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, INLAND POWER & LIGHT COMPANY.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- AVISTA CORP, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, INLAND POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, KOOTENAI ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, NORTHERN LIGHTS, INC, PUD NO 1 OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 37
- Industrial retail rate
- 8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.6 to 23.3¢/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
- 212 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 18 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 24,978 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 Bonner
Read on for the public power picture of Bonner in Idaho, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Bonner at its strongest mapped point. Bonner contains 37 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.
No organized wholesale market covers Bonner, Idaho, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Bonner carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Bonner, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.6 to 23.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
Bonner, Idaho has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Bonner, Idaho, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Bonner shows 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Bonner, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.01 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Bonner sits within commuting range of roughly 24,978 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Bonner here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Bonner, Idaho 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 Bonner, Idaho requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Bonner, Idaho are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.