Juneau, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO., BC HYDRO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

11

Industrial retail rate

20.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 serving utility: 11.1¢/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

20 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

829 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,124 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 Juneau

What follows is a screening-grade read of Juneau, Alaska, built only from named public datasets. At 138 kV, Juneau sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 11 substations across Juneau, a moderate density.

Juneau, Alaska is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Juneau, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 20.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Juneau that report an industrial rate span 1 serving utility: 11.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Juneau, Alaska carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 19.8 MW planned or under construction for Juneau. Juneau sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 829.091 lb CO2 per MWh.

Juneau withdrew 46.1 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,124 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Juneau (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources