Power by county
Platte, WY: data center power outlook
The grid around Platte, Wyoming is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Platte the mapped layer shows 43 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 345 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Platte is split among 5 utilities, among them PACIFICORP, TOWN OF GUERNSEY - (WY), TOWN OF WHEATLAND - (WY).
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- PACIFICORP, TOWN OF GUERNSEY - (WY), TOWN OF WHEATLAND - (WY), WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WHEATLAND RURAL ELEC ASSN, INC
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 345 kV
- Substations in county
- 43
- Industrial retail rate
- 8.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 1 of 5 serving utilities: 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
- 1,870 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 393 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 6,695 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 Platte
Read on for the public power picture of Platte in Wyoming, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Platte carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Platte contains 43 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.
There is no organized wholesale market over Platte, Wyoming; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Platte carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.7 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Platte, the per-utility spread is 1 of 5 serving utilities: 7.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Platte, Wyoming, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Platte, Wyoming, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Platte shows 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Platte, the USGS 2015 compilation records 393.45 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Platte sits within commuting range of roughly 6,695 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Platte here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Platte, Wyoming 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 Platte, Wyoming requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Platte, Wyoming are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.