Petersburg, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BC HYDRO, INSIDE PASSAGE ELEC COOP, INC, PETERSBURG BOROUGH - (AK)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

2

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

No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

46 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 Petersburg

For Petersburg, Alaska, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Petersburg is 115 kV, squarely transmission class. Petersburg, Alaska contains 2 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

Petersburg, Alaska lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. The state industrial average retail rate is 20.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Petersburg at the state level rather than as a county rate.

For Petersburg, Alaska, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Petersburg, Alaska, a real zero rather than a gap. The balancing authority over Petersburg, Alaska has no eGRID output rate, so carbon intensity is absent rather than estimated.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Petersburg at 0.83 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Petersburg, about 46 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Petersburg figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Petersburg, Alaska qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Petersburg, Alaska turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Petersburg, Alaska traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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