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CAISO · California

1,598 MW filed. 169 MW built.

Kramer Substation 230 kV

Nine interconnection requests since 2008: 1 reached commercial operation, 3 withdrew, 5 remain active.

Built
1
Withdrawn
3
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
2008-05-29COSO #1Geothermal15 MWWithdrawn2011-02-07
2013-04-30KRAMER SOLARSolar200 MWWithdrawn2014-03-06
2013-04-30FREMONT VALLEY PRESERVATIONSolar245 MWWithdrawn2014-04-17
2015-04-30ARATINA SOLAR CENTER 1Solar + battery200 MWStill in queue
2016-05-02DAGGETT SOLAR 2Solar + battery169 MWBuilt2023-11-22 · 7.6 yrs
2016-05-02DAGGETT SOLAR 3Solar + battery313.88 MWStill in queue
2019-04-15ARATINA SOLAR CENTER 2Solar + battery200 MWStill in queue
2019-04-15LOCKHART SOLAR 2Solar + battery105 MWStill in queue
2020-04-15OVERNIGHT SOLARSolar + battery150 MWStill in queue

What the record shows

  • Three of the nine requests at this node withdrew, and 1,429 MW of the 1,598 MW filed here never reached operation.
  • The one project that reached operation, 169 MW of solar + battery, took 7.6 years from request to commercial operation.
  • Two requests were filed on 2013-04-30, and all of them withdrew.
  • Three technologies were filed here: Geothermal, Solar and solar + battery.
  • Five of the nine requests were still active at the end of the dataset, so this node's record is not settled.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • A pattern across nine requests at one node is an observation about this node, not a rate that transfers elsewhere.
  • Five requests are 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.