Box Elder, UT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BRIGHAM CITY CORPORATION, PACIFICORP, RAFT RURAL ELEC COOP INC, WELLS RURAL ELECTRIC CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

59

Industrial retail rate

8.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 4 serving utilities: 5.1 to 7.8¢/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

8 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

1,410 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

30,187 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 Box Elder

The material below frames Box Elder, Utah for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Box Elder extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 59 substations into Box Elder, a dense spread of options.

Because Box Elder, Utah sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. For Box Elder, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.4 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Box Elder that report an industrial rate span 3 of 4 serving utilities: 5.1 to 7.8¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Box Elder, Utah carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 7.5 MW planned or under construction for Box Elder. Box Elder sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 1,410.035 lb CO2 per MWh.

Box Elder withdrew 429.96 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 30,187 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Box Elder (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources