{ "name": "Interconnection queues: MW and wait times", "url": "https://interconnectionqueues.com/", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "cite": "Interconnection Queues, https://interconnectionqueues.com/", "updated": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ { "key": "kind", "label": "Type", "type": "enum", "description": "Queue operator, data provider, software or study firm.", "filterable": true, "sortable": true, "enumValues": [ "Public queue operator", "Queue data and analytics", "Software", "Study and advisory" ] }, { "key": "offering", "label": "Offering", "type": "string", "description": "The named queue, report, dataset, software product or service, as the source names it.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "coverage", "label": "Coverage", "type": "string", "description": "Geography, operators or years the source says the offering covers.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "request_types", "label": "Request types", "type": "string", "description": "Generation, storage, load, transmission or DER request types the source says are covered.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "delivery", "label": "Delivery and access", "type": "string", "description": "How the queue or product is delivered: public listing, download, API, SaaS or services.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "refresh_frequency", "label": "Update frequency", "type": "string", "description": "Refresh cadence as the publisher states it. Not a measured data latency.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "source_data_date", "label": "Data as of", "type": "string", "description": "The as-of or last-updated date shown on the source page when we read it.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "queue_fields", "label": "Queue data fields", "type": "string", "description": "Identifiers, project attributes and filters the queue or product lists.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "status_tracking", "label": "Status tracking", "type": "string", "description": "How request status and study stage are tracked.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "timing_data", "label": "Timing data", "type": "string", "description": "Dates or durations the source publishes or models. A proposed in-service date is not a guaranteed wait time.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "historical_wait", "label": "Historical wait", "type": "string", "description": "Median or typical wait published in a named report, with its scope.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "study_turnaround", "label": "Study turnaround", "type": "string", "description": "Published turnaround target or vendor claim, with its qualifier kept in the value.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "study_types", "label": "Study types", "type": "string", "description": "Engineering analyses or process study types the source describes.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "capacity_analytics", "label": "Capacity analytics", "type": "string", "description": "Published capacity, hosting or transfer analysis.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "cost_analytics", "label": "Cost analytics", "type": "string", "description": "Upgrade cost modelling, estimates or cost-reduction advisory.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "risk_analytics", "label": "Risk analytics", "type": "string", "description": "Project-risk, completion or congestion analytics.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "queue_analytics", "label": "Queue analytics", "type": "string", "description": "Queue management, extraction or scenario capabilities.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "financial_tracking", "label": "Financial tracking", "type": "string", "description": "Deposits, upgrade costs and other financial obligations the product tracks.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "standards", "label": "Standards and compliance", "type": "string", "description": "Regulatory frameworks or compliance services the source names. Not a certification.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_support", "label": "Application support", "type": "string", "description": "Help with preparing or processing interconnection applications.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "integrations", "label": "Integrations and tools", "type": "string", "description": "APIs, modelling tools or data exchange the source lists.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "license", "label": "License", "type": "string", "description": "Data or software licence as published.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "customers", "label": "Customers", "type": "string", "description": "Customer types or a named customer, as published.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "operations_support", "label": "Operations support", "type": "string", "description": "Real-time monitoring, dispatch or control features.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_deadline", "label": "Application deadline", "type": "string", "description": "Next application deadline the operator publishes.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_window", "label": "Application window", "type": "string", "description": "Next cluster application window the operator publishes.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_acknowledgment", "label": "Application acknowledgment", "type": "string", "description": "Published time to acknowledge an application.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_review", "label": "Application review", "type": "string", "description": "Published time for the completeness review.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "project_size_range", "label": "Project size range", "type": "string", "description": "Project sizes the source says it serves.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "engagement_start", "label": "Engagement start", "type": "string", "description": "When a documented client engagement began, per a published case study.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "ownership", "label": "Ownership", "type": "string", "description": "Parent or owner as the source states it.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "trial", "label": "Trial", "type": "string", "description": "Free trial or evaluation version the source describes.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "application_fee_usd", "label": "Application fee", "type": "money", "unit": "USD", "description": "Application fee the operator publishes.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "pre_application_fee_usd", "label": "Pre-application report fee", "type": "money", "unit": "USD", "description": "Fee for a pre-application report.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "milestone_security_usd_per_mw", "label": "Milestone security", "type": "money", "unit": "USD/MW", "description": "Security required per MW studied, as the operator publishes it.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "large_generator_threshold_mw", "label": "Large generator threshold", "type": "number", "unit": "MW", "description": "Size above which a request counts as a large generator.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "modeled_capacity_gw", "label": "Modeled capacity, published minimum", "type": "number", "unit": "GW", "description": "Vendor-stated lower bound of project capacity modeled. Not capacity available for purchase.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "qualified_capacity_gw", "label": "Qualified capacity", "type": "number", "unit": "GW", "description": "Capacity the vendor says it has qualified.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "customer_count_min", "label": "Customers, published minimum", "type": "number", "unit": "customers", "description": "Vendor-published lower bound. Not audited.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "completed_studies_min", "label": "Completed studies, published minimum", "type": "number", "unit": "studies", "description": "Lower bound of studies completed, as the firm states it.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "reference_projects_min", "label": "Reference projects, published minimum", "type": "number", "unit": "projects", "description": "Projects in a published case study, lower bound.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "reference_capacity_gw", "label": "Reference capacity", "type": "number", "unit": "GW", "description": "Total requested capacity of the projects in the published case study.", "sortable": true }, { "key": "model_size_buses", "label": "Model size", "type": "number", "unit": "buses", "description": "Largest network model the software supports, as published.", "sortable": true } ], "records": [ { "id": "aeso", "name": "Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)", "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/", "summary": "Publishes Alberta connection project lists, maps, and dashboards for generation, energy storage, and load developments.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "request_types": "Generation, energy storage and load facilities", "refresh_frequency": "Monthly project reporting", "status_tracking": "In-progress with accepted SASR; recently energized and cancelled projects", "delivery": "Project list, interactive map and Power BI dashboards" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://aeso.ca/grid/transmission-projects/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "refresh_frequency", "status_tracking", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "bpa", "name": "Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)", "url": "https://www.bpa.gov/", "summary": "Provides interconnection services to the Federal Columbia River Transmission System and publishes request queues, maps, and study-delay reports.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "coverage": "Federal Columbia River Transmission System", "request_types": "Large and small generation; line and load connections", "large_generator_threshold_mw": 20, "delivery": "Request queue and queue map", "timing_data": "FERC Order 845 study-completed/delayed report" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/transmission/interconnection", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage", "request_types", "large_generator_threshold_mw", "delivery", "timing_data", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "burns-mcdonnell", "name": "Burns & McDonnell", "url": "https://www.burnsmcd.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection studies, grid planning, and engineering services through its 1898 & Co. consultancy and wider engineering business.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "customers": "PG&E transmission planning group, documented case study", "reference_projects_min": 230, "reference_capacity_gw": 35, "study_types": "Power flow, transient stability and bus flow analysis for cluster studies", "engagement_start": "PG&E staff augmentation since 2011, per published case study" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://1898andco.burnsmcd.com/case-study/comprehensive-analysis-for-interconnection", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "customers", "reference_projects_min", "reference_capacity_gw", "study_types", "engagement_start", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "caiso", "name": "California ISO (CAISO)", "url": "https://www.caiso.com/", "summary": "Publishes official interconnection facility information and public queue reports for projects connecting to the ISO-controlled grid.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "status_tracking": "Active, complete and withdrawn facilities", "queue_analytics": "Interconnection request summaries by study process, beginning with requests received in 2015", "capacity_analytics": "Interactive POI capacity heatmap" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.caiso.com/library/interconnection-facility-information", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "status_tracking", "queue_analytics", "capacity_analytics", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "clean-power-research", "name": "Clean Power Research", "url": "https://www.cleanpower.com/", "summary": "Provides PowerClerk workflow software for utility interconnection applications, queue management, and approvals, including large generators and loads.", "tags": [ "Software", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "PowerClerk", "delivery": "No-code SaaS", "request_types": "Large generators and large loads", "queue_fields": "Project status, milestones, deadlines and tasks", "integrations": "APIs, no-code connectors and file exchange" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cleanpower.com/powerclerk/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "delivery", "request_types", "queue_fields", "integrations", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "danovo-energy-solutions", "name": "Danovo Energy Solutions", "url": "https://www.danovoenergy.com/", "summary": "Provides power-system consulting and interconnection software implementation services to utilities, grid operators, developers, and energy users.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "queue_analytics": "Queue management, study clustering and model validation implementation", "customers": "Utilities, municipalities, ISOs/RTOs, developers and energy users", "delivery": "Engineering, analytics and advisory services" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.danovoenergy.com/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "queue_analytics", "customers", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "dnv", "name": "DNV", "url": "https://www.dnv.com/", "summary": "Provides renewable interconnection and integration studies to transmission and distribution network operators.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "customers": "Transmission system operators and distribution network operators", "study_types": "Thermal/voltage, dynamic stability, short circuit/protection and electromagnetic transient impacts", "risk_analytics": "Grid congestion and market operations" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.dnv.com/services/renewable-interconnection-and-integration-studies-2617/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "customers", "study_types", "risk_analytics", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "dominion-energy", "name": "Dominion Energy", "url": "https://www.dominionenergy.com/", "summary": "Provides parallel-generation interconnection services and publishes Virginia queue status and performance reports.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Virginia Queue Status Report", "refresh_frequency": "Queue status quarterly; queue performance semi-annually", "application_acknowledgment": "Acknowledges receipt and assigns queue number within 3 business days", "application_review": "Completeness review within 10 business days" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.dominionenergy.com/virginia/large-business-services/using-our-facilities/parallel-generation-and-interconnection", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "refresh_frequency", "application_acknowledgment", "application_review", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "duke-energy", "name": "Duke Energy", "url": "https://www.duke-energy.com/", "summary": "Operates generator interconnection processes for developers and publishes interconnection study results through utility OASIS resources.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "request_types": "Distributed renewable generation and storage", "study_types": "Cluster studies described for distributed generation in June 2024", "application_support": "Dedicated Distributed Generation interconnection team", "delivery": "Duke Energy Progress generation study results downloadable from OASIS Generator Interconnection Information folder" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://illumination.duke-energy.com/articles/meet-the-team-connecting-clean-energy-to-the-grid", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "study_types", "application_support", "kind" ] }, { "url": "https://www.oasis.oati.com/woa/docs/CPL/CPLdocs/Contacts.html", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "delivery" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "epe", "name": "Electric Power Engineers (EPE)", "url": "https://epeconsulting.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection engineering and strategy for generation, large-load, and transmission developers, utilities, and other energy stakeholders.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "offering": "Grid Analysis & Interconnection", "standards": "NERC and regulatory compliance services", "study_types": "Transmission planning and operations services", "coverage": "ERCOT and Eastern Interconnect, including SPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO and SERC (2025 service-team description)" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://epeconsulting.com/solutions", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "standards", "study_types", "kind" ] }, { "url": "https://epeconsulting.com/epe-intelligence/publications/analyzing-the-pjm-cluster-tc1-decision-point-3", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "enerzinx", "name": "Enerzinx", "url": "https://enerzinx.com/", "summary": "Provides generator and large-load interconnection engineering, application support, modeling, and grid studies for developers and utilities.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "request_types": "Renewables, data centers and utility-scale energy", "application_support": "Generator interconnection applications", "cost_analytics": "Upgrade identification and cost estimation", "integrations": "PSSE, PSCAD, PSLF, TSAT, ETAP, ASPEN, DIgSILENT and SSAT modeling" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://enerzinx.com/services/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "application_support", "cost_analytics", "integrations", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "enverus", "name": "Enverus", "url": "https://www.enverus.com/", "summary": "Provides queue intelligence and interconnection simulation software for developers, investors, and transmission providers. Pearl Street's Interconnect tracks queue changes and models project risk.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "offering": "Interconnect", "coverage": "All 7 US ISOs", "refresh_frequency": "Daily public-queue tracking", "queue_fields": "POI, output, status and changes over time", "study_turnaround": "Portions of interconnection studies in hours (vendor claim)" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://pearlstreettechnologies.com/project-developers/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "coverage", "refresh_frequency", "queue_fields", "study_turnaround", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "ercot", "name": "ERCOT", "url": "https://www.ercot.com/", "summary": "Publishes planned-generation interconnection status reports and transmission interconnection cost reporting for the ERCOT region.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Generator Interconnection Status (GIS) report", "refresh_frequency": "Monthly GIS reports", "request_types": "Planned generation in ERCOT region", "cost_analytics": "Transmission interconnection costs report series added March 2026", "capacity_analytics": "Resource capacity trends cover gas, wind, solar and battery storage" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/resource?_sp=7f35809e-c7d0-40cf-a031-4a13f797d30a", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "refresh_frequency", "request_types", "cost_analytics", "capacity_analytics", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "grid-status", "name": "Grid Status", "url": "https://www.gridstatus.io/", "summary": "Provides grid-data access through a hosted API and an open-source Python library. Its source integrations include interconnection queues, with availability varying by operator.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "delivery": "Open-source Python library and hosted REST API", "coverage": "Integrations for CAISO, ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE, IESO and AESO; dataset coverage varies", "queue_analytics": "Interconnection queue extraction", "license": "Open-source library: BSD-3-Clause" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://github.com/gridstatus/gridstatus", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "delivery", "coverage", "queue_analytics", "license", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "gridcare", "name": "GridCARE", "url": "https://www.gridcare.ai/", "summary": "Provides capacity discovery and flexible-load interconnection acceleration for utilities and data centers through its Energize solution.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "offering": "GridCARE Energize", "qualified_capacity_gw": 5, "capacity_analytics": "Power Finder identifies latent grid capacity", "operations_support": "Real-time monitoring and dispatch for flexible loads/resources" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gridcare.ai/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "qualified_capacity_gw", "capacity_analytics", "operations_support", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "gridmo", "name": "gridmo", "url": "https://www.gridmo.io/", "summary": "Provides software for engineers automating grid connection studies, with maintained grid-code templates and simulation examples.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "delivery": "Software platform for grid connection studies", "standards": "Maintained templates for different grid codes", "integrations": "Generic model templates for PSS/E, PSCAD and PowerFactory" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://docs.gridmo.io/docs/template-library/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "delivery", "standards", "integrations", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "gridtracker", "name": "GridTracker", "url": "https://www.gridtracker.io/", "summary": "Provides queue histories, regulatory filings, and large-load project intelligence. Interconnection.fyi is its public queue resource.", "tags": [ "Queue data", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "coverage": "US interconnection queues", "refresh_frequency": "Daily snapshots, with history since April 2024", "delivery": "Browser interface and MCP connector", "queue_fields": "Capacity, status, developer, POI and queue date" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gridtracker.io/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage", "refresh_frequency", "delivery", "queue_fields", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "gridunity", "name": "GridUnity", "url": "https://www.gridunity.com/", "summary": "Sells interconnection workflow software to transmission providers, utilities, and developers, covering applications through commissioning.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "GridInterConnect for Transmission", "delivery": "Cloud-based SaaS", "standards": "FERC Order 2023 cluster-study management", "financial_tracking": "Study deposits and network upgrade costs" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gridunity.com/gridinterconnect-for-transmission", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "delivery", "standards", "financial_tracking", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "icf", "name": "ICF", "url": "https://www.icf.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection strategy, application support, shadow studies, and technical advisory services to energy developers and investors.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "application_support": "Site screening through application review and shadow studies", "cost_analytics": "Network upgrade cost minimization", "request_types": "Generation and load connections", "customers": "Energy project developers and investors" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.icf.com/work/energy-project-development", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "application_support", "cost_analytics", "request_types", "customers", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "ieso", "name": "Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)", "url": "https://www.ieso.ca/", "summary": "Publishes connection application status and system impact assessment reports for Ontario power-system stakeholders.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "request_types": "Transmission, load, generation and ancillary services", "queue_fields": "Queue, applicant, transmission zone, type and size", "timing_data": "Application date and proposed in-service date", "status_tracking": "Active means assessment/addendum work remains in progress", "source_data_date": "2026-11-10" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ieso.ca/en/Sector-Participants/Connection-Process/Application-Status", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "queue_fields", "timing_data", "status_tracking", "source_data_date", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "iso-new-england", "name": "ISO New England", "url": "https://www.iso-ne.com/", "summary": "Publishes the New England interconnection queue and manages generation and elective transmission upgrade requests.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "request_types": "New/uprated generation, elective transmission upgrades and transmission service", "capacity_analytics": "Net MW and summer/winter network resource capability", "timing_data": "Expected commercial operation, synchronization and withdrawal dates", "status_tracking": "Study-phase status and tariff-timeline deviations", "delivery": "Public queue with PDF and XLSX export guidance" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.iso-ne.com/system-planning/interconnection-service/interconnection-request-queue", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "capacity_analytics", "timing_data", "status_tracking", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "kevala", "name": "Kevala", "url": "https://www.kevala.com/", "summary": "Provides grid-planning software with interconnection queue scenarios and capacity analysis for utilities and developers.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "Integrated Grid Planning (IGP)", "request_types": "Load and distributed generation scenarios", "queue_analytics": "Edit queued resources in scenario models", "integrations": "PSS/E load forecast export" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.kevala.com/release-notes", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "request_types", "queue_analytics", "integrations", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "landgate", "name": "LandGate", "url": "https://www.landgate.com/", "summary": "Sells site-screening data and offtake reports for energy and data-center developers. Reports combine nearby queue competition with modeled capacity and network upgrade costs.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "offering": "Offtake Report", "queue_fields": "Queue date, capacity, POI, generation/storage type and status", "cost_analytics": "Network upgrade cost curve in millions of dollars versus capacity in MW", "delivery": "Reports and MCP server" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.landgate.com/news/a-developer-s-guide-to-the-landgate-s-nationwide-offtake-capacity-data", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "queue_fields", "cost_analytics", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "lbnl", "name": "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory", "url": "https://emp.lbl.gov/queues", "summary": "Publishes the Queued Up dataset and reports for developers, analysts, and policymakers researching US generation and storage queues.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "offering": "Queued Up: 2026 Edition", "source_data_date": "2025-12-31; Excel updated May 2026", "coverage": "7 ISOs/RTOs and 50 non-ISO utilities", "license": "CC BY 4.0; attribution to LBNL and GridTracker", "historical_wait": "Median request-to-COD exceeded 5 years for projects built in 2025, in regions with data" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://emp.lbl.gov/queues", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "source_data_date", "coverage", "license", "historical_wait", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "miso", "name": "MISO", "url": "https://www.misoenergy.org/", "summary": "Operates the Midcontinent generator interconnection process and publishes queue tools for developers and transmission stakeholders.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Generator interconnection process and GIA Portal", "application_fee_usd": 7600, "milestone_security_usd_per_mw": 8000, "application_deadline": "2026 DPP cycle: January 15, 2027", "study_turnaround": "ERAS aims to issue a GIA in three months; targeted temporary process" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://extranet.misoenergy.org/planning/resource-utilization/generator-interconnection/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "application_fee_usd", "milestone_security_usd_per_mw", "application_deadline", "study_turnaround", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "neso", "name": "National Energy System Operator (NESO)", "url": "https://www.neso.energy/", "summary": "Publishes Great Britain connection registers, including contracted transmission entry capacity, project status, and effective dates.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) Register", "refresh_frequency": "Twice weekly: Tuesdays and Fridays", "capacity_analytics": "Connected, incremental and cumulative contracted capacity in MW", "timing_data": "Contracted effective connection date", "status_tracking": "Project build status and Gate 1/Gate 2 classification", "delivery": "CSV and CKAN Data API" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/transmission-entry-capacity-tec-register/tec_register", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "refresh_frequency", "capacity_analytics", "timing_data", "status_tracking", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "nyiso", "name": "New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)", "url": "https://www.nyiso.com/", "summary": "Maintains the New York interconnection process and publishes queue and load-capacity reporting for generation and large-load developments.", "tags": [ "Public queues", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "request_types": "Large-load interconnection requests are reported in the Gold Book", "capacity_analytics": "Summer and winter load MW are separate columns", "timing_data": "Proposed in-service date; historical 2024 reporting, not a current wait estimate", "queue_fields": "Queue position, owner/operator, project and zone" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nyiso.com/documents/20142/2226333/2024-Gold-Book-Public.pdf", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "capacity_analytics", "timing_data", "queue_fields", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "nira-energy", "name": "Nira Energy", "url": "https://www.niraenergy.com/", "summary": "Sells interconnection capacity and cost modeling tools to generation and load developers, utilities, and transmission planners.", "tags": [ "Queue data", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "study_types": "ERIS and NRIS study replication", "modeled_capacity_gw": 700, "customer_count_min": 100, "request_types": "Generation and load development" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.niraenergy.com/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "study_types", "modeled_capacity_gw", "customer_count_min", "request_types", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "paces", "name": "Paces", "url": "https://www.paces.com/", "summary": "Provides development software and expert services to power and data-center developers, including preparation of interconnection submissions.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "offering": "Development-as-a-Service", "application_support": "Interconnection submission preparation", "delivery": "Services tracked within Paces platform", "customers": "Power developers" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.paces.com/products/services", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "application_support", "delivery", "customers", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "pge", "name": "Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)", "url": "https://www.pge.com/", "summary": "Provides wholesale generator interconnection services and a public wholesale distribution queue for developers.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Public wholesale distribution queue", "delivery": "XLSX download", "study_types": "Cluster Study Process evaluates requests collectively", "application_window": "QC16: September 11–25, 2026" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pge.com/en/about/doing-business-with-pge/interconnections/wholesale-generation.html", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "delivery", "study_types", "application_window", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "pacificorp", "name": "PacifiCorp", "url": "https://www.pacificorp.com/", "summary": "Publishes a generation interconnection queue on its OASIS site for developers evaluating connection requests and study progress.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "source_data_date": "2026-10-15, as shown in indexed queue header", "capacity_analytics": "Summer and winter maximum MW output", "status_tracking": "Request status and study schedule deviation", "timing_data": "Request date and customer-requested commercial operations date", "queue_fields": "County, state, region and point of interconnection" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.oasis.oati.com/PPW/PPWdocs/pacificorplgiaq.htm", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "source_data_date", "capacity_analytics", "status_tracking", "timing_data", "queue_fields", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "pjm", "name": "PJM Interconnection", "url": "https://www.pjm.com/", "summary": "Publishes serial and cycle interconnection request status and associated studies for developers and transmission stakeholders.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Cycle Service Request Status", "queue_fields": "Filters by project type, cycle, status, transmission owner, state and county", "delivery": "Full and filtered exports in XLS and XML", "study_types": "SIS reports include facility and affected-system studies" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pjm.com/planning/m/cycle-service-request-status", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "queue_fields", "delivery", "study_types", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "powergem", "name": "PowerGEM", "url": "https://power-gem.co/", "summary": "Provides TARA power-flow simulation software for transmission planning and interconnection analysis by utilities, operators, and developers.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "TARA", "study_types": "N-1 and N-1-1 contingency analysis", "integrations": "Python API and scripting", "delivery": "Batch, multi-core and cloud licensing", "capacity_analytics": "FCITC and optimal MW transfer analysis" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://power-gem.co/software/tara-software/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "study_types", "integrations", "delivery", "capacity_analytics", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "powerworld-corporation", "name": "PowerWorld Corporation", "url": "https://www.powerworld.com/", "summary": "Sells Simulator power-system analysis software and training for generator interconnection and transmission-planning studies.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "PowerWorld Simulator", "study_types": "Generator interconnection studies with steady-state security analysis", "capacity_analytics": "ATC, maximum transfer PV curves and reactive margin QV curves", "trial": "Free 13-bus evaluation version" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.powerworld.com/training/courses/steady-state-security", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "study_types", "capacity_analytics", "trial", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "psc-consulting", "name": "PSC Consulting", "url": "https://www.pscconsulting.com/", "summary": "Provides feasibility and interconnection studies, network planning, and generator testing for electricity-industry participants.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "study_types": "Feasibility and interconnection studies", "integrations": "PSS/E, PowerWorld, PSLF, DIgSILENT and PSCAD", "standards": "NERC compliance services", "application_support": "Generator testing, modeling and compliance" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pscconsulting.com/services/power-networks", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "study_types", "integrations", "standards", "application_support", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "pterra-consulting", "name": "Pterra Consulting", "url": "https://www.pterra.com/", "summary": "Provides independent power-system studies, capacity screening, and interconnection engineering for generation, DER, and load projects.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "study_types": "Generation interconnection, feasibility and impact studies", "request_types": "DER evaluation and load interconnection engineering", "offering": "dqBOT IBR model-validation automation", "standards": "IEEE 2800 and NERC MOD/PRC compliance" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pterra.com/assets/front/downloadable/PterraBrochure2025-11-03.pdf", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "study_types", "request_types", "offering", "standards", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "pvcase", "name": "PVcase", "url": "https://pvcase.com/", "summary": "Sells Prospect site-selection software with modeled interconnection capacity and allocated costs for US project sites.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "PVcase Prospect Capacity", "coverage": "US project sites only", "study_types": "N-1 injection studies by bus", "cost_analytics": "Allocated costs and limiting constraints", "request_types": "Includes BESS charging studies" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://help.pvcase.com/hc/en-us/articles/46897204626707-Capacity", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "coverage", "study_types", "cost_analytics", "request_types", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "rlc-engineering", "name": "RLC Engineering", "url": "https://www.rlc-eng.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection and power-system studies for utilities, grid operators, and project developers.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "request_types": "Solar, wind and battery resources on transmission and distribution systems", "completed_studies_min": 500, "capacity_analytics": "Hosting and injection capacity analyses", "study_types": "DER cluster studies" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.rlc-eng.com/services-planning-studies?service=nerc-compliance", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "request_types", "completed_studies_min", "capacity_analytics", "study_types", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "sp-global-market-intelligence", "name": "S&P Global Market Intelligence", "url": "https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/", "summary": "Provides power-market intelligence and US interconnection queue analysis for investors and energy-sector decision makers.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "coverage": "2023 analysis covers all 7 US ISOs and 14 major non-ISO utilities; historical report scope", "timing_data": "Measures queue entry to proposed online date", "queue_analytics": "Capacity and technology analysis by region and state", "offering": "2026 US Interconnection Queues Analysis report" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/research/us-interconnection-queues-analysis-2023", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage", "timing_data", "queue_analytics", "kind" ] }, { "url": "https://pages.marketintelligence.spglobal.com/US-Interconnection-Analysis-2026---Download-Page.html", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "siemens", "name": "Siemens", "url": "https://www.siemens.com/", "summary": "Provides PSS E transmission-analysis software and companion tools for generation interconnection studies and automated model submission workflows.", "tags": [ "Software" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "Gridscale X PSS E", "integrations": "More than 2,000 open Python APIs", "model_size_buses": 200000, "application_support": "PSS E plus PSS MOD can automate generation interconnection workflows" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.siemens.com/en-us/products/pss-software/gridscale-x-pss-e/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "integrations", "model_size_buses", "application_support", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "smarter-grid-solutions", "name": "Smarter Grid Solutions", "url": "https://www.smartergridsolutions.com/", "summary": "Provides flexible interconnection controls to distribution utilities seeking to connect more generation, storage, and large loads within grid limits.", "tags": [ "Software", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Software", "offering": "Flexible Grid Interconnections powered by Strata Grid", "request_types": "Distributed generation, energy storage and large loads", "operations_support": "Real-time network/DER monitoring and corrective set-point control", "delivery": "Controls do not depend on a network model" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.smartergridsolutions.com/solutions/flexible-dgder-interconnection-operation", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "request_types", "operations_support", "delivery", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "sce", "name": "Southern California Edison (SCE)", "url": "https://www.sce.com/", "summary": "Provides generator interconnection services, a public queue, and study reports for projects connecting to its electric system.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Public interconnection queue and redacted study reports", "application_support": "Grid Interconnection Processing Tool (GIPT)", "request_types": "WDAT and Rule 21 non-export requests accepted in tool", "standards": "Wholesale Distribution Access Tariff and Rule 21" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sce.com/clean-energy-efficiency/solar-generating-your-own-power/solar-power-basics/grid-interconnections", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "application_support", "request_types", "standards", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "southern-company", "name": "Southern Company Transmission", "url": "https://www.southerncompany.com/", "summary": "Publishes OATT generator interconnection request lists and studies for developers in Southern Companies' transmission system.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Active OATT requests in transitional cluster study listing", "capacity_analytics": "Incremental and total net MW", "timing_data": "Queue date and requested in-service date", "queue_fields": "Facility location, proposed POI, generation type/size and comments" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.oasis.oati.com/SOCO/SOCOdocs/Transitional_Cluster_Study_Eligible.pdf", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "capacity_analytics", "timing_data", "queue_fields", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "spp", "name": "Southwest Power Pool (SPP)", "url": "https://www.spp.org/", "summary": "Operates generator interconnection studies and publishes an active-request listing with project capacity, status, and schedule information.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "delivery": "Public listing and CSV download", "queue_fields": "Capacity MW, summer/winter MW, generation/fuel type, POI and status", "timing_data": "Request received, withdrawal and commercial operation dates; cause of delay", "status_tracking": "Includes executed GIA and study stages", "source_data_date": "2026-11-11" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://opsportal.spp.org/Studies/GIActive", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "delivery", "queue_fields", "timing_data", "status_tracking", "source_data_date", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "tnei", "name": "TNEI", "url": "https://www.tneigroup.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection management, site screening, and engineering services to data-center developers and energy projects.", "tags": [ "Studies", "Large load" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "coverage": "US data-center interconnection services", "application_support": "IR process management with RTOs, ISOs and investor-owned utilities", "capacity_analytics": "Grid capacity and feasibility studies", "cost_analytics": "Review of utility impact studies for costs and risks", "project_size_range": "Data centers from 10 MW to 500 MW and above" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.tneigroup.com/usa/data-center-services-usa/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage", "application_support", "capacity_analytics", "cost_analytics", "project_size_range", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "wood-mackenzie", "name": "Wood Mackenzie", "url": "https://www.woodmac.com/", "summary": "Sells Lens Power & Renewables intelligence with US queue dashboards for tracking development pipelines, project capacity, and processing times.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "offering": "Lens Power & Renewables queue data", "coverage": "US interconnection queues", "queue_fields": "Project status, technology and queue position", "timing_data": "Project processing times across markets" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.woodmac.com/lens-power-and-renewables-feature-releases/interconnection-queue-data-and-insights/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "coverage", "queue_fields", "timing_data", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "wsp", "name": "WSP", "url": "https://www.wsp.com/", "summary": "Provides interconnection and power-system studies through its TRC business for utilities and developers. Services assess how new generation affects transmission and distribution systems.", "tags": [ "Studies" ], "fields": { "kind": "Study and advisory", "completed_studies_min": 600, "coverage": "United States study reference portfolio", "application_support": "Interconnection application assistance", "study_types": "TRV and TOV dynamic stability studies", "ownership": "TRC is part of WSP; consolidated into one provider record" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.trccompanies.com/insights/preparing-for-the-future-of-power-systems-studies-today/", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "completed_studies_min", "coverage", "application_support", "study_types", "ownership", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "xcel-energy", "name": "Xcel Energy", "url": "https://www.xcelenergy.com/", "summary": "Publishes distributed energy resource queue and hosting-capacity resources for developers, including Minnesota interconnections.", "tags": [ "Public queues" ], "fields": { "kind": "Public queue operator", "offering": "Distributed Energy Resources interconnection queue", "refresh_frequency": "Monthly queue update", "pre_application_fee_usd": 300, "coverage": "Minnesota distributed generation interconnection" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.xcelenergy.com/working_with_us/how_to_interconnect/hosting_capacity_map_disclaimer", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "offering", "refresh_frequency", "pre_application_fee_usd", "coverage", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" }, { "id": "yes-energy", "name": "Yes Energy", "url": "https://www.yesenergy.com/", "summary": "Sells electricity-market data and infrastructure intelligence to traders, utilities, and developers. Infrastructure Insights tracks planned generation, transmission, and large-load projects.", "tags": [ "Queue data" ], "fields": { "kind": "Queue data and analytics", "coverage": "North America", "offering": "Infrastructure Insights", "queue_fields": "Official ISO queue status", "timing_data": "Analyst-projected online year", "risk_analytics": "Project completion probability scores from 0% to 100%" }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.yesenergy.com/blog/infrastructure-insights-increases-data-on-electrical-grid-capacity-additions", "accessed": "2026-11-11", "fields": [ "coverage", "offering", "queue_fields", "timing_data", "risk_analytics", "kind" ] } ], "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11" } ] }