Clark, ID: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC, NORTHWESTERN ENERGY LLC - (MT), PACIFICORP, VIGILANTE ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

5

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

1 of 4 serving utilities: 8.3¢/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

225 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,786 employed in construction within ~120 km (8 of 9 counties reporting)A 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 Clark

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Clark, Idaho that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Clark is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Clark, Idaho shows 5 substations in the mapped layer, a thin spread across the county.

There is no organized wholesale market over Clark, Idaho; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Clark at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Clark that publish a rate range 1 of 4 serving utilities: 8.3¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Clark, Idaho has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Clark, Idaho, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Clark, via its balancing authority, is 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Clark at 145.26 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Clark, about 5,786 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Clark figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Clark, Idaho qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Clark, Idaho turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Clark, Idaho traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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