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Lamesa 138 kV: interconnection queue history

Three of four requests reached commercial operation.

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Four interconnection requests since 2014: 3 reached commercial operation and 1 withdrew.

Built
3
Withdrawn
1
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
2014-06-26Lamesa Solar B (Phase II) IVORYSolar50 MWBuilt2018-12-19 · 4.5 yrs
2014-06-26LMESASLR (BNB Lamesa Solar 1)Solar101.6 MWBuilt2018-02-21 · 3.7 yrs
2018-05-03Gold Creek SolarSolar140 MWWithdrawn2020-09-10
2022-03-06Al Pastor BESSOther103.1 MWBuilt2024-11-01 · 2.7 yrs

What the record shows

  • 140 MW of the 395 MW filed here withdrew, and 255 MW reached commercial operation.
  • Completions here took between 2.7 and 4.5 years from request to commercial operation (median 3.7).
  • The largest request filed here, 140 MW (solar), withdrew 2.4 years after filing.
  • Two requests were filed on 2014-06-26; all of them reached operation.
  • By technology, the requests here were solar 3, other 1.
  • 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.
  • 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.