Alameda, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL POWER, LATHROP IRRIGATION DISTRICT, MODESTO IRRIGATION DISTRICT, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., PORT OF OAKLAND, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

108

Industrial retail rate

21.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 6 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/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

477 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

369 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

273,624 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 Alameda

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Alameda, California. At 500 kV, Alameda carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Alameda contains 108 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Alameda clears through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Alameda carries the state industrial average retail rate of 21.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Alameda, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Alameda, California, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Alameda, 477.1 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Alameda shows 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Alameda, the USGS 2015 compilation records 178.82 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Alameda sits within commuting range of roughly 273,624 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Alameda here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Alameda, California settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Alameda, California requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Alameda, California are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources