Washington, UT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALAMO POWER DISTRICT NO 3, CITY OF ENTERPRISE - (UT), CITY OF SANTA CLARA - (UT), CITY OF ST GEORGE, CITY OF WASHINGTON - (UT), DIXIE ESCALANTE R E A, INC, GARKANE ENERGY COOP, INC, HURRICANE CITY POWER, LINCOLN COUNTY POWER DIST NO 1, PACIFICORP, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

104

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

4 of 11 serving utilities: 3.1 to 7.8¢/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

1,410 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

13,232 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 Washington

Read on for the public power picture of Washington in Utah, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Washington carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Washington contains 104 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Washington, Utah, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Washington carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Washington, the per-utility spread is 4 of 11 serving utilities: 3.1 to 7.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Washington, Utah shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Washington, Utah, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Washington shows 1,410.035 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Washington, the USGS 2015 compilation records 95.27 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Washington sits within commuting range of roughly 13,232 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources