White Pine, NV: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALAMO POWER DISTRICT NO 3, LINCOLN COUNTY POWER DIST NO 1, MT WHEELER POWER, INC, WELLS RURAL ELECTRIC CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

4

Industrial retail rate

8.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 4 serving utilities: 5.2 to 7.0¢/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

600 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

705 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

No QCEW construction county within commuting rangeA 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 White Pine

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in White Pine, Nevada. At 500 kV, White Pine carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. White Pine, Nevada contains 4 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

There is no organized wholesale market over White Pine, Nevada; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. White Pine carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For White Pine, the per-utility spread is 2 of 4 serving utilities: 5.2 to 7.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

White Pine, Nevada has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In White Pine, 600 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over White Pine shows 704.866 lb CO2 per MWh.

For White Pine, the USGS 2015 compilation records 113.8 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Within a commuting radius of White Pine, Nevada, no QCEW construction county reports, which itself speaks to staffing a large build.

Every figure for White Pine here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for White Pine, Nevada 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 White Pine, Nevada requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for White Pine, Nevada are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources