Lane, OR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACHLY-LANE COUNTY COOP EL ASSN, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOP INC - (OR), CENTRAL LINCOLN PEOPLE'S UT DT, CITY OF EUGENE - (OR), CITY OF SPRINGFIELD - (OR), CITY OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES - (NM), CONSUMERS POWER, INC, DOUGLAS ELECTRIC COOP - (OR), EMERALD PEOPLE'S UTILITY DIST, LANE ELECTRIC COOP INC, MIDSTATE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PACIFICORP, UMPQUA INDIAN UTILITY COOPERATIVE, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

118

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

9 of 15 serving utilities: 2.0 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

3 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

212 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

22,047 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 Lane

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Lane, Oregon. At 500 kV, Lane carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Lane contains 118 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Lane, Oregon lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Lane carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.3 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Lane, the per-utility spread is 9 of 15 serving utilities: 2.0 to 9.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Lane, Oregon, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Lane, 3 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Lane shows 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Lane, the USGS 2015 compilation records 275.11 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Lane sits within commuting range of roughly 22,047 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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