Okanogan, WA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BC HYDRO, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, CITY OF COULEE DAM - (WA), INLAND POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, NESPELEM VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, OKANOGAN COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, PUD NO 1 OF CHELAN COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF FERRY COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF OKANOGAN COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF WHATCOM COUNTY, PUD NO 2 OF GRANT COUNTY, PUGET SOUND ENERGY INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

29

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

8 of 12 serving utilities: 1.3 to 7.1¢/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

0 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

4,400 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 Okanogan

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Okanogan, Washington. At 500 kV, Okanogan carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Okanogan contains 29 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Okanogan, Washington lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Okanogan carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Okanogan, the per-utility spread is 8 of 12 serving utilities: 1.3 to 7.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Okanogan, Washington, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Okanogan, Washington in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Okanogan shows 0 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Okanogan, the USGS 2015 compilation records 65.15 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Okanogan sits within commuting range of roughly 4,400 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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