Power by county
Ada, ID: data center power outlook
Ada sits in an area outside an organized wholesale market; what follows is the screening-grade grid picture for Ada, Idaho, drawn from public datasets. Counting from the mapped infrastructure, Ada holds 57 mapped substations and reaches 500 kV. IDAHO POWER CO holds the retail service territory covering Ada.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- IDAHO POWER CO
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 500 kV
- Substations in county
- 57
- Industrial retail rate
- 8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 1 serving utility: 8.1¢/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
- 400 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
- 225 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 318 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 36,337 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 Ada
Everything here about Ada, Idaho comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Ada reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 57 substations mapped, Ada offers interconnection points across many locations.
Because Ada, Idaho sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. The rate for Ada is the 8.0 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Ada, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 1 serving utility: 8.1¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.
The covered queue feeds list nothing for Ada, Idaho, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Ada has 400 MW of planned or under-construction generation on file in EIA-860M. The balancing authority covering Ada carries a grid carbon intensity of 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Ada are 317.51 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Ada, some 36,337 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.
These numbers for Ada are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Ada, Idaho 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 Ada, Idaho is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Ada, Idaho, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.