Mountrail, ND: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOP, BURKE-DIVIDE ELECTRIC COOP INC, LOWER YELLOWSTONE R E A, INC, MCKENZIE ELECTRIC COOP INC, MCLEAN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, MONTANA-DAKOTA UTILITIES CO, MOUNTRAIL-WILLIAMS ELEC COOP, NORTHERN STATES POWER CO - MINNESOTA, OTTER TAIL POWER CO, SHERIDAN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, VERENDRYE ELECTRIC COOP INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

33

Industrial retail rate

7.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

11 of 12 serving utilities: 1.1 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

7,835 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 of 9 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 Mountrail

The material below frames Mountrail, North Dakota for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Mountrail extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 33 substations into Mountrail, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Mountrail runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Mountrail, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Mountrail that report an industrial rate span 11 of 12 serving utilities: 1.1 to 12.3¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Mountrail, North Dakota carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Nothing is on file for Mountrail, North Dakota in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Mountrail sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Mountrail withdrew 5.72 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 7,835 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Mountrail (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources