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CAISO · California

The largest request here withdrew. The smallest, 100 MW, was built.

Victor Substation 230 kV

Six interconnection requests since 2010: 1 reached commercial operation, 5 withdrew.

Built
1
Withdrawn
5
Still in queue
0

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
2010-02-01BARSTOW SOLAR IISolar420 MWWithdrawn2010-05-26
2017-05-01HIGH 5 SOLARSolar + battery100 MWBuilt2021-12-08 · 4.6 yrs
2018-04-16BIG BEAR WINDWind199 MWWithdrawn2018-07-31
2023-04-17Scorpio StorageBattery600 MWWithdrawn2024-12-02
2023-04-17LunaBattery417 MWWithdrawn2024-12-02
2023-04-17Titan PowerBattery1160 MWWithdrawn2024-12-02

What the record shows

  • Five of the six requests at this node withdrew, and 2,796 MW of the 2,896 MW filed here never reached operation.
  • The one project that reached operation, 100 MW of solar + battery, took 4.6 years from request to commercial operation.
  • The largest request ever filed here, 1160 MW, withdrew 1.6 years after filing.
  • Three requests were filed on 2023-04-17, and all of them withdrew.
  • Four technologies were filed here: Solar, Solar + battery, Wind and battery.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • With six requests, nothing at this node generalises to another; it is a record, not a rate.
  • 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.