Grays Harbor, WA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, CITY OF MCCLEARY - (WA), PUD NO 1 OF GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PUD NO 1 OF LEWIS COUNTY, PUD NO 2 OF PACIFIC COUNTY, PUD NO 3 OF MASON COUNTY, PUGET SOUND ENERGY INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

68

Industrial retail rate

6.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

7 of 8 serving utilities: 1.3 to 7.7¢/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

212 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

15,209 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 Grays Harbor

For Grays Harbor, Washington, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Grays Harbor is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Grays Harbor carries 68 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

There is no organized wholesale market over Grays Harbor, Washington; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 6.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Grays Harbor at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Grays Harbor that publish a rate range 7 of 8 serving utilities: 1.3 to 7.7¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Grays Harbor, Washington, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Grays Harbor, Washington, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Grays Harbor, via its balancing authority, is 212.458 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Grays Harbor at 27.36 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Grays Harbor, about 15,209 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 Grays Harbor figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Grays Harbor, Washington 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 Grays Harbor, Washington turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Grays Harbor, Washington traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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