Southeast Fairbanks, AK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALASKA POWER AND TELEPHONE CO, ALASKA VILLAGE ELEC COOP, INC, BIRCH CREEK VILLAGE ELEC UTIL - (AK), CHITINA ELECTRIC INC, COPPER VALLEY ELEC ASSN, INC, CORDOVA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, G & K, INC, GALENA ELECTRIC UTILITY, GOLD COUNTRY ENERGY, GOLDEN VALLEY ELEC ASSN INC, GWITCHYAA ZHEE UTILITY CO, HUGHES POWER & LIGHT CO, IGIUGIG ELECTRIC COMPANY, MCGRATH LIGHT & POWER CO, TANANA POWER CO INC, TATITLEK ELECTRIC UTILITY, TDX MANLEY GENERATING LLC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

8

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 of 17 serving utilities: 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

829 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

98 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 Southeast Fairbanks

What follows is a screening-grade read of Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, built only from named public datasets. At 138 kV, Southeast Fairbanks sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 8 substations across Southeast Fairbanks, a moderate density.

Because Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. For Southeast Fairbanks, 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 Southeast Fairbanks that report an industrial rate span 1 of 17 serving utilities: 21.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Southeast Fairbanks sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 829.091 lb CO2 per MWh.

Southeast Fairbanks withdrew 0.95 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 98 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Southeast Fairbanks (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources