Power by county
Gem, ID: data center power outlook
Gem sits in an area outside an organized wholesale market; what follows is the screening-grade grid picture for Gem, Idaho, drawn from public datasets. Counting from the mapped infrastructure, Gem holds 10 mapped substations and reaches 230 kV. IDAHO POWER CO holds the retail service territory covering Gem.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- IDAHO POWER CO
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 10
- 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
- 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
- 150 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 36,627 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 Gem
Everything here about Gem, Idaho comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Gem reaches 230 kV at its highest mapped voltage, a transmission class that can carry a substantial interconnection where capacity exists. With 10 substations mapped, Gem has a moderate spread of interconnection points.
Because Gem, Idaho sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. The rate for Gem is the 8.0 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Gem, 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 Gem, Idaho, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Gem, Idaho has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. The balancing authority covering Gem carries a grid carbon intensity of 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Gem are 149.72 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Gem, some 36,627 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.
These numbers for Gem are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Gem, 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 Gem, Idaho is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Gem, Idaho, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.