Laramie, WY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACK HILLS POWER, INC., CARBON POWER & LIGHT, INC, CHEYENNE LIGHT FUEL & POWER, CITY OF PINE BLUFFS - (WY), HIGH WEST ENERGY, INC, PACIFICORP, POUDRE VALLEY REA, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WHEATLAND RURAL ELEC ASSN, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

81

Industrial retail rate

8.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 9 serving utilities: 7.7 to 10.5¢/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

1,485 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

1,870 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

31,218 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 Laramie

The material below frames Laramie, Wyoming for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Laramie extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 81 substations into Laramie, a dense spread of options.

Laramie, Wyoming is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Laramie, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.7 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Laramie that report an industrial rate span 4 of 9 serving utilities: 7.7 to 10.5¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Laramie, Wyoming carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 1,485 MW planned or under construction for Laramie. Laramie sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh.

Laramie withdrew 189.92 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 31,218 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Laramie (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources