Stanislaus, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

LATHROP IRRIGATION DISTRICT, MODESTO IRRIGATION DISTRICT, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., TUOLUMNE COUNTY PUB POWER AGNY, TURLOCK IRRIGATION DISTRICT, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

90

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 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

100 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

772 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

1,152 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

226,838 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 Stanislaus

What follows is a screening-grade read of Stanislaus, California, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Stanislaus extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 90 substations into Stanislaus, a dense spread of options.

Sitting outside any organized market, Stanislaus, California handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Stanislaus, 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 Stanislaus that report an industrial rate span 4 of 6 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Stanislaus, California, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M records 100 MW planned or under construction for Stanislaus. Stanislaus sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 772.224 lb CO2 per MWh.

Stanislaus withdrew 1,151.96 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 226,838 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Stanislaus (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources