Power by county
Elmore, ID: data center power outlook
The grid around Elmore, Idaho is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Elmore the mapped layer shows 35 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 500 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Elmore is split among 2 utilities, among them IDAHO POWER CO, SALMON RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- IDAHO POWER CO, SALMON RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 500 kV
- Substations in county
- 35
- 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
- 2 serving utilities: 5.8 to 8.1¢/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
- 200 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
- 225 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 386 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 35,872 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 Elmore
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Elmore, Idaho. At 500 kV, Elmore carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Elmore contains 35 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.
No organized wholesale market covers Elmore, Idaho, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Elmore carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Elmore, the per-utility spread is 2 serving utilities: 5.8 to 8.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
Elmore, Idaho shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Elmore, 200 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Elmore shows 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Elmore, the USGS 2015 compilation records 386.4 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Elmore sits within commuting range of roughly 35,872 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Elmore here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Elmore, 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 Elmore, Idaho requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Elmore, Idaho are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.