Mono, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

KINGS RIVER CONSERVATION DIST, LIBERTY UTILITIES, LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., SIERRA PACIFIC POWER CO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, TUOLUMNE COUNTY PUB POWER AGNY, VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

1000 kV

Substations in county

13

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

5 of 9 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

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

369 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

7,126 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 of 8 counties reporting)A 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 Mono

The material below frames Mono, California for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Mono extends to 1,000 kV, the extra-high-voltage class. The mapped layer places 13 substations across Mono, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Mono runs through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Mono, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 21.6 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Mono that report an industrial rate span 5 of 9 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Mono, California in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Mono, California has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Mono sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

Mono withdrew 70.96 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 7,126 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Mono (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources