Matanuska-Susitna, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AKIACHAK NATIVE COMMUNITY ELECTRIC, ALASKA POWER AND TELEPHONE CO, ALASKA VILLAGE ELEC COOP, INC, ANIAK LIGHT & POWER CO INC, BIRCH CREEK VILLAGE ELEC UTIL - (AK), CHITINA ELECTRIC INC, CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSN INC, COPPER VALLEY ELEC ASSN, INC, CORDOVA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, GALENA ELECTRIC UTILITY, GOLD COUNTRY ENERGY, GOLDEN VALLEY ELEC ASSN INC, GWITCHYAA ZHEE UTILITY CO, HOMER ELECTRIC ASSN INC, HUGHES POWER & LIGHT CO, IGIUGIG ELECTRIC COMPANY, KUIGGLUUM KALLUGVIA, KWIG POWER COMPANY, MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSN INC, MCGRATH LIGHT & POWER CO, MIDDLE KUSKOKWIM ELEC COOP INC, NAPAKIAK IRCINRAQ POWER CO, TANANA POWER CO INC, TATITLEK ELECTRIC UTILITY, TDX MANLEY GENERATING LLC, TUNTUTULIAK COMM SERVICES ASSN

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

21

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

3 of 26 serving utilities: 12.4 to 21.9¢/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

No eGRID rate published for this balancing authority

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

3,887 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 Matanuska-Susitna

Everything here about Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Matanuska-Susitna reaches 230 kV at its highest mapped voltage, a transmission class that can carry a substantial interconnection where capacity exists. With 21 substations mapped, Matanuska-Susitna offers interconnection points across many locations.

Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. The rate for Matanuska-Susitna is the 20.0 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Matanuska-Susitna, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 3 of 26 serving utilities: 12.4 to 21.9¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Across the covered feeds, Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Nothing is on file for Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. eGRID carries no output rate for the balancing authority above Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska, leaving carbon intensity blank rather than guessed.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Matanuska-Susitna are 8.46 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Matanuska-Susitna, some 3,887 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Matanuska-Susitna are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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