Deschutes, OR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOP INC - (OR), CITY OF EUGENE - (OR), HARNEY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LANE ELECTRIC COOP INC, MIDSTATE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PACIFICORP, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

1000 kV

Substations in county

75

Industrial retail rate

8.3¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 8 serving utilities: 6.5 to 9.7¢/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

307 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

19,990 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 Deschutes

Read on for the public power picture of Deschutes in Oregon, assembled for data center siting. At 1,000 kV, Deschutes carries extra-high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Deschutes contains 75 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Deschutes, Oregon, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Deschutes carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.3 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Deschutes, the per-utility spread is 5 of 8 serving utilities: 6.5 to 9.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Deschutes, Oregon, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Deschutes, Oregon, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Deschutes shows 306.81 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Deschutes, the USGS 2015 compilation records 125.1 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Deschutes sits within commuting range of roughly 19,990 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Deschutes here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Deschutes, Oregon 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 Deschutes, Oregon requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Deschutes, Oregon are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources