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Birds Landing 230 kV: interconnection queue history

Eleven of eighteen requests withdrew; two reached operation.

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Eighteen interconnection requests since 2002: 2 reached commercial operation, 11 withdrew, and 5 remain active.

Built
2
Withdrawn
11
Still in queue
5

The queue record

Every interconnection request the dataset records at this point of interconnection, in filing order.

Interconnection requests recorded at this point of interconnection, with request date, capacity and outcome.
RequestedProjectTechnologyCapacityOutcome
2002-12-16SHILOH I WIND PROJECTWind150 MWBuilt2006-03-30 · 3.3 yrs
2003-11-18MONTEZUMA (HIGH WINDS III)Wind + battery38 MWStill in queue
2004-11-11SHILOH IIIWind200 MWBuilt2012-12-04 · 8.1 yrs
2006-06-30COLLINSVILLE WINDWind30 MWWithdrawn2014-10-25
2007-05-23MONTEZUMA IIWind + battery78 MWStill in queue
2007-10-10BIRDS LANDING ENERGY CENTERGas390.6 MWWithdrawn2008-06-03
2009-07-31MONTEZUMA II EXPANSIONWind98.9 MWWithdrawn2012-02-24
2009-10-05PREMIER POWER RUSSELL SOLARSolar20 MWWithdrawn2010-01-20
2011-03-31MONTEZUMA WETLANDSWind250 MWWithdrawn2012-04-17
2015-04-30BIRDS LANDING WINDWind1.84 MWWithdrawn2016-12-14
2018-04-16BERRYDALE STORAGEBattery41.8 MWWithdrawn2019-03-08
2018-04-16SOLANO 4 WINDWind92.354 MWStill in queue
2018-04-16WINDCHARGER ESSBattery150 MWWithdrawn2021-04-09
2018-04-16GREEN MEZZOBattery204.1 MWWithdrawn2019-03-08
2020-04-15FORTISSolar + wind + battery205.02 MWWithdrawn2025-05-14
2021-04-15HIGH WINDS STORAGEBattery120.62 MWStill in queue
2023-04-17Toland Renewable Energy ParkWind108 MWStill in queue
2023-04-17FORTIS 2Battery206 MWWithdrawn2024-12-02

What the record shows

  • 1,598 MW of the 2,385 MW filed here withdrew, and 350 MW reached commercial operation.
  • Completions here took between 3.3 and 8.1 years from request to commercial operation (median 5.7).
  • The largest request filed here, 391 MW (gas), withdrew 0.6 years after filing.
  • Four requests were filed on 2018-04-16; 3 withdrew and 1 remains active.
  • Four of the 11 withdrawals came within a year of filing.
  • By technology, the requests here were wind 8, battery 5, wind + battery 2, gas 1, solar 1, solar + wind + battery 1.
  • The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2003-11-18.
  • The dataset records this point of interconnection under eleven spellings, which are combined here.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • What separated the requests that reached operation from those that withdrew, such as study results, upgrade assignments or site conditions, is not in the public queue record, so a decision record here would have to carry it as an unknown.
  • Five requests are unresolved, so the outcome counts at this node can still change.
  • The dataset records outcomes and dates, not reasons, so no cause is attributed to any outcome here.

What this does and does not show

This is a reading of a public dataset, not a customer case study: no engagement, customer or client is involved. The dataset records outcomes — what was built, what withdrew, and when — but not why any project withdrew, so no cause is attributed here. Nothing on this page claims GridVision predicted, influenced or would have changed any outcome, and a pattern at one point of interconnection does not generalise to another.

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up: 2026 Edition — project-level interconnection queue dataset. Interconnection requests through year-end 2025. Used under CC BY 4.0; attribution to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker.

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