Power by county
Madison, ID: data center power outlook
Madison, Idaho is served through an area outside an organized wholesale market, and the figures below describe the public grid around a prospective data center site there. Madison carries 14 mapped substations within its boundary, and the highest reachable grid access is 230 kV. The serving utility mapped across Madison is FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 14
- 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
- No per-utility rate on fileLowest 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
- 370 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 13,381 employed in construction within ~120 km (9 of 10 counties reporting)A 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 Madison
What follows is a screening-grade read of Madison, Idaho, built only from named public datasets. At 230 kV, Madison sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 14 substations across Madison, a moderate density.
Madison, Idaho is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Madison, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one.
Across the covered feeds, Madison, 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 Madison, Idaho, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Madison sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 225.071 lb CO2 per MWh.
Madison withdrew 370.48 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 13,381 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Madison (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.
For Madison, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Madison, Idaho describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Madison, Idaho, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Madison, Idaho refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.