Power by county
Tillamook, OR: data center power outlook
The grid around Tillamook, Oregon is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Tillamook the mapped layer shows 16 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 230 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Tillamook is split among 5 utilities, among them BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, PACIFICORP, PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, PACIFICORP, PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, TILLAMOOK PEOPLES UTILITY DIST, WEST OREGON ELECTRIC COOP INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 16
- Industrial retail rate
- 8.3¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.8 to 9.7¢/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
- 38 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 102,667 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 Tillamook
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Tillamook, Oregon. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Tillamook at its strongest mapped point. Tillamook contains 16 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
There is no organized wholesale market over Tillamook, Oregon; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Tillamook carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.3 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Tillamook, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.8 to 9.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Tillamook, Oregon, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Tillamook, Oregon, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Tillamook shows 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Tillamook, the USGS 2015 compilation records 37.9 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Tillamook sits within commuting range of roughly 102,667 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Tillamook here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Tillamook, Oregon 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 Tillamook, Oregon requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Tillamook, Oregon are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.