Daniels, MT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NORVAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC, SHERIDAN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

14

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

No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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

0 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

131 employed in construction within ~120 km (2 of 4 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 Daniels

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Daniels, Montana that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Daniels is 115 kV, squarely transmission class. Daniels carries 14 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Daniels, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Daniels at the state level rather than as a county rate.

Daniels, Montana shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. For Daniels, Montana, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Daniels, via its balancing authority, is 0 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Daniels at 6.72 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Daniels, about 131 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 Daniels figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Daniels, Montana 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 Daniels, Montana turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Daniels, Montana traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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