Klickitat, WA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BENTON RURAL ELECTRIC ASSN, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, HOOD RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, NORTHERN WASCO COUNTY PUD, PACIFICORP, PUD NO 1 OF BENTON COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF KLICKITAT COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF SKAMANIA CO, UMATILLA ELECTRIC COOP ASSN, WASCO ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

51

Industrial retail rate

6.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 10 serving utilities: 1.3 to 8.3¢/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

300 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

212 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

14,302 employed in construction within ~120 km (8 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 Klickitat

What follows is a screening-grade read of Klickitat, Washington, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Klickitat extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 51 substations into Klickitat, a dense spread of options.

Because Klickitat, Washington sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. For Klickitat, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.9 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Klickitat that report an industrial rate span 5 of 10 serving utilities: 1.3 to 8.3¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Klickitat, Washington in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 300 MW planned or under construction for Klickitat. Klickitat sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.

Klickitat withdrew 31.46 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 14,302 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Klickitat (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources