ERCOT · Texas · Public-record retrospective
Pinto Creek 138 kV: interconnection queue history
Two of three requests reached commercial operation.
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Three interconnection requests since 2018: 2 reached commercial operation and 1 withdrew.
- Built
- 2
- Withdrawn
- 1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-23 | Zier Storage | Other | 40.41 MW | Built2024-04-26 · 5.9 yrs |
| 2018-05-23 | Zier Solar | Solar | 162.99 MW | Built2024-04-26 · 5.9 yrs |
| 2021-05-30 | Zier Storage Phase 2 | Other | 20.21 MW | Withdrawn2022-04-06 |
What the record shows
- 20.2 MW of the 224 MW filed here withdrew, and 203 MW reached commercial operation.
- Completions here took between 5.9 and 5.9 years from request to commercial operation (median 5.9).
- The largest request filed here, 163 MW (solar), reached operation 5.9 years after filing.
- Two requests were filed on 2018-05-23; all of them reached operation.
- By technology, the requests here were other 2, solar 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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