Siskiyou, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., PACIFICORP, SURPRISE VALLEY ELECTRIFICATION, TRINITY PUBLIC UTILITIES DIST, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

55

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

4 of 5 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

307 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

10,947 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 Siskiyou

Below, Siskiyou in California is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Siskiyou reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 55 substations mapped, Siskiyou offers interconnection points across many locations.

Siskiyou, California is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. The rate for Siskiyou is the 21.6 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Siskiyou, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Siskiyou, California in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Nothing is on file for Siskiyou, California in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Siskiyou carries a grid carbon intensity of 306.81 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Siskiyou are 229.71 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Siskiyou, some 10,947 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Siskiyou are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Siskiyou, California 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 Siskiyou, California is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Siskiyou, California, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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