Power by county
Boise, ID: data center power outlook
For Boise, Idaho, the public grid picture begins with its place in an area outside an organized wholesale market and the infrastructure mapped inside the county. Grid access across Boise tops out at 230 kV, over a footprint of 4 mapped substations. In Boise, 2 utilities share the retail territory, among them IDAHO POWER CO, SALMON RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- IDAHO POWER CO, SALMON RIVER ELECTRIC COOP INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 4
- 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
- 2 serving utilities: 5.8 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
- 4.9 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 36,668 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 Boise
For Boise, Idaho, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Boise is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Boise, Idaho contains 4 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.
There is no organized wholesale market over Boise, Idaho; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Boise at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Boise that publish a rate range 2 serving utilities: 5.8 to 8.1¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.
Boise, Idaho has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Boise, Idaho, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Boise, via its balancing authority, is 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Boise at 4.87 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Boise, about 36,668 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.
Read the Boise figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Boise, Idaho qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Boise, Idaho turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Boise, Idaho traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.