Blaine, ID: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF MINIDOKA - (ID), IDAHO POWER CO, LOST RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC, RAFT RURAL ELEC COOP INC, SALMON RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

11

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

3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.3 to 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

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

225 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

7,892 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 Blaine

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Blaine, Idaho. At 345 kV, Blaine carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Blaine contains 11 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Blaine, Idaho lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Blaine carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Blaine, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 5.3 to 8.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Blaine, Idaho, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Blaine, Idaho, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Blaine shows 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Blaine, the USGS 2015 compilation records 228.28 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Blaine sits within commuting range of roughly 7,892 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Blaine here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Blaine, Idaho settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Blaine, Idaho requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Blaine, Idaho are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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