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CAISO · California

Six withdrawals, and one 405.85 MW project.

Devers Substation 230 kV

Eight interconnection requests since 2014: 1 reached commercial operation, 6 withdrew, 1 remain active.

Built
1
Withdrawn
6
Still in queue
1

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
2014-04-30VERMILLIONSolar100 MWWithdrawn2015-01-27
2016-05-02MARVELBattery405.85 MWBuilt2024-04-24 · 8.0 yrs
2018-04-16SILVERWINGSolar + battery156 MWWithdrawn2019-03-12
2019-04-15CONSECHABattery100.98 MWWithdrawn2019-07-10
2019-04-15VENTUS RENEWABLE ENERGY CENTERSolar + wind + battery208.527 MWWithdrawn2019-07-19
2020-04-15DESERT SANDSBattery300 MWStill in queue
2020-04-15GRISEDALE STORAGE 1Battery510 MWWithdrawn2021-05-10
2021-04-15ARDILLABattery410.76 MWWithdrawn2025-10-02

What the record shows

  • Six of the eight requests at this node withdrew, and 1,786 MW of the 2,192 MW filed here never reached operation.
  • The one project that reached operation, 405.85 MW of battery, took 8 years from request to commercial operation.
  • The largest request ever filed here, 510 MW, withdrew 1.1 years after filing.
  • Two requests were filed on 2019-04-15, and all of them withdrew.
  • Four technologies were filed here: Solar, Battery, Solar + battery and solar + wind + battery.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • A pattern across eight requests at one node is an observation about this node, not a rate that transfers elsewhere.
  • One request is unresolved, so any comparison at this node has to stay open rather than concluded.
  • The dataset records no withdrawal reasons, study costs or upgrade assignments, so those remain unknowns on this record.

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.