Wahkiakum, WA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, CLATSKANIE PEOPLES UTIL DIST, PACIFICORP, PUD NO 1 OF COWLITZ COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF LEWIS COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, PUD NO 2 OF PACIFIC COUNTY

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

2

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 7 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

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

81,647 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 Wahkiakum

Read on for the public power picture of Wahkiakum in Washington, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Wahkiakum at its strongest mapped point. Across Wahkiakum, Washington, the mapped layer holds just 2 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

Wahkiakum, 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. Wahkiakum carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Wahkiakum, the per-utility spread is 5 of 7 serving utilities: 1.3 to 8.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Wahkiakum, Washington has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Wahkiakum, Washington, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Wahkiakum shows 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Wahkiakum, the USGS 2015 compilation records 0.55 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Wahkiakum sits within commuting range of roughly 81,647 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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