ERCOT · Texas · Public-record retrospective
Cenizo 345 kV: interconnection queue history
Three of six requests withdrew; one reached operation.
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Six interconnection requests since 2015: 1 reached commercial operation, 3 withdrew, and 2 remain active.
- Built
- 1
- Withdrawn
- 3
- Still in queue
- 2
The queue record
Every interconnection request the dataset records at this point of interconnection, in filing order.
| Requested | Project | Technology | Capacity | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-23 | Reloj Del Sol Wind | Wind | 209.4 MW | Built2022-08-03 · 7.4 yrs |
| 2016-01-04 | Zapata II W | Wind | 400 MW | Withdrawn2019-03-20 |
| 2019-07-18 | Saturn 2 Wind | Wind | 150 MW | Withdrawn2020-09-22 |
| 2019-07-18 | Saturn 1 Wind | Wind | 300 MW | Withdrawn2020-09-22 |
| 2021-05-31 | BRP Nile BESS | Battery | 202.34 MW | Still in queue |
| 2021-07-13 | Quarter Ranch Solar | Solar | 154.12 MW | Still in queue |
What the record shows
- 850 MW of the 1,416 MW filed here withdrew, and 209 MW reached commercial operation.
- The one request that reached operation took 7.4 years from request to commercial operation.
- The largest request filed here, 400 MW (wind), withdrew 3.2 years after filing.
- Two requests were filed on 2019-07-18; all of them withdrew.
- None of the 3 withdrawals came within a year of filing; the quickest took 1.2 years.
- By technology, the requests here were wind 4, battery 1, solar 1.
- The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2021-05-31.
- The dataset records this point of interconnection under two 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.
- Two 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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