Power by county
Franklin, ID: data center power outlook
Franklin sits in an area outside an organized wholesale market; what follows is the screening-grade grid picture for Franklin, Idaho, drawn from public datasets. Counting from the mapped infrastructure, Franklin holds 13 mapped substations and reaches 345 kV. Franklin is covered by 2 retail service territories, including CITY OF PRESTON, PACIFICORP.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- CITY OF PRESTON, PACIFICORP
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 345 kV
- Substations in county
- 13
- 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 of 2 serving utilities: 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
- 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
- 320 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 19,169 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 Franklin
Below, Franklin in Idaho is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Franklin reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 13 substations mapped, Franklin has a moderate spread of interconnection points.
Because Franklin, Idaho sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. The rate for Franklin is the 8.0 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Franklin, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.3¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.
Across the covered feeds, Franklin, Idaho carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Franklin, Idaho, which is a national filing and so a real zero. The balancing authority covering Franklin carries a grid carbon intensity of 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Franklin are 319.67 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Franklin, some 19,169 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.
These numbers for Franklin are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Franklin, 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 Franklin, Idaho is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Franklin, Idaho, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.