Big Horn, MT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BIG HORN COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, BIG HORN RURAL ELECTRIC CO, MID-YELLOWSTONE ELEC COOP, INC, NORTHWESTERN ENERGY LLC - (MT), PACIFICORP, POWDER RIVER ENERGY CORP, TONGUE RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ELEC CO-OP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

50

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 9 serving utilities: 1.8 to 12.3¢/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

1,583 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

8,417 employed in construction within ~120 km (3 of 6 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 Big Horn

The material below frames Big Horn, Montana for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Big Horn extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 50 substations into Big Horn, a dense spread of options.

Sitting outside any organized market, Big Horn, Montana handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Big Horn, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Big Horn that report an industrial rate span 3 of 9 serving utilities: 1.8 to 12.3¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Big Horn, Montana, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Big Horn, Montana has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Big Horn sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 1,583.022 lb CO2 per MWh.

Big Horn withdrew 328.84 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 8,417 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Big Horn (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Big Horn, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Big Horn, Montana describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Big Horn, Montana, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Big Horn, Montana refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources