Mineral, MT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AVISTA CORP, MISSOULA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, NORTHWESTERN ENERGY LLC - (MT)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

10

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

2 of 3 serving utilities: 1.8 to 8.9¢/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

212 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,803 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 Mineral

The material below frames Mineral, Montana for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Mineral extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 10 substations across Mineral, a moderate density.

Mineral, Montana is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Mineral, 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 Mineral that report an industrial rate span 2 of 3 serving utilities: 1.8 to 8.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Mineral, Montana, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Mineral, Montana, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Mineral sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.

Mineral withdrew 1.95 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 5,803 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Mineral (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources