Power by county
Payette, ID: data center power outlook
The grid around Payette, Idaho is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Payette the mapped layer shows 5 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 230 kV at its strongest point. Retail electric service across Payette comes from IDAHO POWER CO.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- IDAHO POWER CO
- 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 serving utility: 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
- 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
- 432 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 36,287 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 Payette
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Payette, Idaho. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Payette at its strongest mapped point. Payette, Idaho shows 5 substations in the mapped layer, a thin spread across the county.
No organized wholesale market covers Payette, Idaho, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Payette carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Payette, the per-utility spread is 1 serving utility: 8.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Payette, Idaho, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Payette, Idaho, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Payette shows 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Payette, the USGS 2015 compilation records 432.3 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Payette sits within commuting range of roughly 36,287 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Payette here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Payette, 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 Payette, Idaho requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Payette, Idaho are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.