State of interconnection queues — January 2024
A look at the state of interconnection queues across 6 RTOs/ISOs and 20 utilities in the U.S.
To kick off 2024, we used Interconnection.fyi‘s daily-updated dataset to analyze the present state of the queue.
To be precise, we took a snapshot of the queue from Interconnection.fyi’s dataset at Jan 1, 2024 to produce these charts. Interconnection.fyi processes daily updates of the queue - for access to this historical data, or if you want any reports constructed of the data, contact us here.
Here are some trends we’ve found:
What’s in the queue right now?
1.3 terawatts of capacity in the queue
Interconnection.fyi aggregates queue data across all 6 major RTOs/ISOs and 20 utilities in the U.S.
Based on this data there are currently at least 1.3 terawatts of capacity in the queue. 1.3 terawatts of capacity being planned. And that is not counting the long tail of utilities and other distributed energy assets Interconnection.fyi is not gathering presently in the US.
How much is 1.3 terawatts? Well there’s 300 GW (0.3 terawatt) in operation currently that have gone thru the queues listed above. 1.3 terawatts is 1,300 gigawatts, and 1 GW could power around 850,000 households at a given time.
Analysis of capacity in queues
Let’s look more into the in-queued capacity data
Total capacity by generation type
Standalone solar is the dominant generation type in the queue currently, followed by wind and battery storage. There’s a long-tail of hybrid generation (i.e. solar AND battery storage, or solar AND wind) as well.
👉 Read the full article our full blog post here (along with interactive visualizations in Tableau): https://www.interconnection.fyi/blog/state-of-interconnection-jan-2024
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