Esmeralda, NV: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

SIERRA PACIFIC POWER CO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSN, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

120 kV

Substations in county

4

Industrial retail rate

8.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 3 serving utilities: 4.9 to 11.2¢/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

27 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

705 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,079 employed in construction within ~120 km (3 of 4 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 Esmeralda

What follows is a screening-grade read of Esmeralda, Nevada, built only from named public datasets. At 120 kV, Esmeralda sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped footprint in Esmeralda, Nevada is sparse, 4 substations, so options cluster at those points.

Esmeralda, Nevada is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Esmeralda, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.1 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Esmeralda that report an industrial rate span 2 of 3 serving utilities: 4.9 to 11.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Esmeralda, Nevada in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 26.5 MW planned or under construction for Esmeralda. Esmeralda sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 704.866 lb CO2 per MWh.

Esmeralda withdrew 53.62 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,079 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Esmeralda (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Esmeralda, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Esmeralda, Nevada describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Esmeralda, Nevada, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Esmeralda, Nevada refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources