ERCOT · Texas · Public-record retrospective
Bakersfield 345 kV: interconnection queue history
Four of seven requests reached commercial operation.
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Seven interconnection requests since 2014: 4 reached commercial operation and 3 withdrew.
- Built
- 4
- Withdrawn
- 3
- Still in queue
- 0
The queue record
Every interconnection request the dataset records at this point of interconnection, in filing order.
| Requested | Project | Technology | Capacity | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-16 | RE Maplewood 2b Solar | Solar | 28 MW | Built2021-10-11 · 7.0 yrs |
| 2014-10-16 | RE Maplewood 2d Solar | Solar | 100 MW | Withdrawn2019-03-19 |
| 2014-10-16 | RE Maplewood 2e Solar | Solar | 100 MW | Withdrawn2019-03-19 |
| 2014-10-16 | RE Maplewood 2a Solar | Solar | 222 MW | Built2021-10-11 · 7.0 yrs |
| 2014-10-16 | RE Maplewood 2c Solar | Solar | 250 MW | Withdrawn2020-08-19 |
| 2015-05-29 | Waymark Solar | Solar | 182 MW | Built2018-12-20 · 3.6 yrs |
| 2020-07-23 | Hydra BESS | Other | 200.8 MW | Built2024-05-17 · 3.8 yrs |
What the record shows
- 450 MW of the 1,083 MW filed here withdrew, and 633 MW reached commercial operation.
- Completions here took between 3.6 and 7.0 years from request to commercial operation (median 5.4).
- The largest request filed here, 250 MW (solar), withdrew 5.8 years after filing.
- Five requests were filed on 2014-10-16; 2 reached operation and 3 withdrew.
- None of the 3 withdrawals came within a year of filing; the quickest took 4.4 years.
- By technology, the requests here were solar 6, other 1.
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.
- 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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