Gallatin, MT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

FALL RIVER RURAL ELEC COOP INC, NORTHWESTERN ENERGY LLC - (MT), PARK ELECTRIC COOP INC, VIGILANTE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WILLWOOD LIGHT & POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

31

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 6 serving utilities: 1.8¢/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

1,583 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

484 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

10,356 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 Gallatin

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Gallatin, Montana. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Gallatin at its strongest mapped point. Gallatin contains 31 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Gallatin, Montana, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Gallatin carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Gallatin, the per-utility spread is 1 of 6 serving utilities: 1.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Gallatin, Montana has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Gallatin, Montana in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Gallatin shows 1,583.022 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Gallatin, the USGS 2015 compilation records 483.92 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Gallatin sits within commuting range of roughly 10,356 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Gallatin here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Gallatin, Montana settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Gallatin, Montana requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Gallatin, Montana are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources