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Bonneville, ID: data center power outlook

For Bonneville, 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 Bonneville tops out at 161 kV, over a footprint of 44 mapped substations. In Bonneville, 6 utilities share the retail territory, among them CITY OF IDAHO FALLS - (ID), FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC, IDAHO POWER CO.

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CITY OF IDAHO FALLS - (ID), FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC, IDAHO POWER CO, LOWER VALLEY ENERGY INC, PACIFICORP, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
ISO / market: NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
Highest grid access: 161 kV
Substations in county: 44
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: 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.0 to 8.3¢/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: 359 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: 817 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 16,894 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 Bonneville

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Bonneville, Idaho that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Bonneville is 161 kV, squarely transmission class. Bonneville carries 44 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

No organized wholesale market covers Bonneville, Idaho, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Bonneville at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Bonneville that publish a rate range 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.0 to 8.3¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Bonneville, Idaho shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 359 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Bonneville. Grid carbon intensity for Bonneville, via its balancing authority, is 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Bonneville at 817.47 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Bonneville, about 16,894 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 Bonneville figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Bonneville, 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 Bonneville, Idaho turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Bonneville, Idaho traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

Sources

Bonneville, ID: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CITY OF IDAHO FALLS - (ID), FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC, IDAHO POWER CO, LOWER VALLEY ENERGY INC, PACIFICORP, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
ISO / market: NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
Highest grid access: 161 kV
Substations in county: 44
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: 4 of 6 serving utilities: 5.0 to 8.3¢/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: 359 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: 817 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 16,894 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.