San Juan, UT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF BLANDING - (UT), EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, GARKANE ENERGY COOP, INC, NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY, PACIFICORP, SAN MIGUEL POWER ASSN, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

37

Industrial retail rate

8.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 7 serving utilities: 3.1 to 28.0¢/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

1,870 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,226 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 San Juan

For San Juan, Utah, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in San Juan is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. San Juan carries 37 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

No organized wholesale market covers San Juan, Utah, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.4 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to San Juan at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in San Juan that publish a rate range 5 of 7 serving utilities: 3.1 to 28.0¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For San Juan, Utah, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in San Juan, Utah, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for San Juan, via its balancing authority, is 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across San Juan at 17.72 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of San Juan, about 1,226 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the San Juan figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for San Juan, Utah qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in San Juan, Utah turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for San Juan, Utah traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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