Tulare, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

KINGS RIVER CONSERVATION DIST, LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

287 kV

Substations in county

70

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

625 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

1,532 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

47,856 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 Tulare

The material below frames Tulare, California for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. At 287 kV, Tulare sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer packs 70 substations into Tulare, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Tulare runs through the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Tulare, 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 Tulare that report an industrial rate span 4 of 5 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 Tulare, California in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 625 MW planned or under construction for Tulare. Tulare sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh.

Tulare withdrew 1,532.32 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 47,856 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Tulare (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources