ERCOT · Texas · Public-record retrospective
Sam Switch 345 kV: interconnection queue history
Two of five requests reached commercial operation.
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Five interconnection requests since 2014: 2 reached commercial operation, 1 withdrew, and 2 remain active.
- Built
- 2
- Withdrawn
- 1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-15 | Shawnee G | Gas | 928 MW | Withdrawn2018-08-31 |
| 2018-07-17 | Aquilla Lake Wind | Wind | 202 MW | Built2023-01-31 · 4.5 yrs |
| 2019-05-22 | Aquilla Lake 2 Wind | Wind | 100 MW | Built2023-01-31 · 3.7 yrs |
| 2025-11-05 | Seven Angels Energy Storage I | Battery | 514 MW | Still in queue |
| 2025-11-05 | Seven Angels Energy Storage II | Battery | 514 MW | Still in queue |
What the record shows
- 928 MW of the 2,258 MW filed here withdrew, and 302 MW reached commercial operation.
- Completions here took between 3.7 and 4.5 years from request to commercial operation (median 4.1).
- The largest request filed here, 928 MW (gas), withdrew 4.1 years after filing.
- Two requests were filed on 2025-11-05; all of them remain active.
- By technology, the requests here were battery 2, wind 2, gas 1.
- The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2025-11-05.
- The dataset records this point of interconnection under three 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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