Power by county
Lincoln, ID: data center power outlook
Lincoln sits in an area outside an organized wholesale market; what follows is the screening-grade grid picture for Lincoln, Idaho, drawn from public datasets. Counting from the mapped infrastructure, Lincoln holds 8 mapped substations and reaches 345 kV. Lincoln is covered by 2 retail service territories, including CITY OF MINIDOKA - (ID), IDAHO POWER CO.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- CITY OF MINIDOKA - (ID), IDAHO POWER CO
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 345 kV
- Substations in county
- 8
- 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: 8.1¢/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
- 252 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 7,550 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 Lincoln
Everything here about Lincoln, Idaho comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Lincoln reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 8 substations mapped, Lincoln has a moderate spread of interconnection points.
Sitting outside any organized market, Lincoln, Idaho handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. The rate for Lincoln is the 8.0 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Lincoln, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 1 of 2 serving utilities: 8.1¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.
No interconnection-queue project is on record for Lincoln, Idaho in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Nothing is on file for Lincoln, Idaho in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Lincoln carries a grid carbon intensity of 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.
Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Lincoln are 251.76 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Lincoln, some 7,550 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.
These numbers for Lincoln are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Lincoln, 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 Lincoln, Idaho is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Lincoln, Idaho, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.