PJM · Virginia · Public-record retrospective
Ladysmith 230 kV & Spotsylvania 500 kV: interconnection queue history
Twelve of 21 requests withdrew; eight reached operation.
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21 interconnection requests since 2006: 8 reached commercial operation, 12 withdrew, and 1 remains active.
- Built
- 8
- Withdrawn
- 12
- Still in queue
- 1
The queue record
Every interconnection request the dataset records at this point of interconnection, in filing order.
This page reads 21 dataset rows at Dominion's Ladysmith 230 kV station (Caroline County, including the Ladysmith CT unit buses) and Spotsylvania 500 kV station (Spotsylvania County), recorded under twelve point-of-interconnection names. Requests on lines out of either station are not included.
| Requested | Project | Technology | Capacity | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-10-03 | Ladysmith CT Units 3 & 4 | Gas | 340 MW | Built2008-06-01 · 1.7 yrs |
| 2007-07-31 | Ladysmith Combustion Turbine Unit 5 | Gas | 170 MW | Built2009-03-31 · 1.7 yrs |
| 2008-04-29 | Ladysmith Unit 3 | Oil | 20 MW | Built2009-10-01 · 1.4 yrs |
| 2008-04-29 | Ladysmith Unit 4 | Oil | 20 MW | Built2009-10-01 · 1.4 yrs |
| 2008-04-29 | Ladysmith Unit 5 | Oil | 20 MW | Built2009-03-31 · 0.9 yrs |
| 2010-04-27 | (unnamed) | Gas | 612 MW | Withdrawn2010-08-30 |
| 2016-10-31 | Spotsylvania Energy Center | Solar | 485 MW | Built2020-09-02 · 3.8 yrs |
| 2017-03-24 | (unnamed) | Gas | 19 MW | Withdrawn2019-04-12 |
| 2017-03-24 | (unnamed) | Gas | 19 MW | Withdrawn2019-04-12 |
| 2017-03-24 | (unnamed) | Gas | 19 MW | Withdrawn2019-04-12 |
| 2017-03-24 | Ladysmith Combustion Turbines Unit 1 | Gas | 19 MW | Built2019-05-17 · 2.1 yrs |
| 2017-03-24 | Ladysmith Combustion Turbines Unit 2 | Gas | 19 MW | Built2019-05-17 · 2.1 yrs |
| 2018-03-30 | (unnamed) | Solar | 208.5 MW | Withdrawn2018-04-06 |
| 2018-07-11 | (unnamed) | Solar | 300 MW | Withdrawn2018-10-12 |
| 2020-09-10 | Ladysmith Battery Storage | Battery | 50 MW | Withdrawn2025-11-03 |
| 2021-09-08 | (unnamed) | Battery | 30 MW | Withdrawn2025-04-29 |
| 2021-09-10 | (unnamed) | Battery | 62.5 MW | Withdrawn2025-01-14 |
| 2021-09-10 | (unnamed) | Battery | 62.5 MW | Withdrawn2025-01-14 |
| 2022-04-01 | (unnamed) | Battery | 200 MW | Withdrawn2022-05-09 |
| 2022-04-01 | (unnamed) | Battery | 300 MW | Still in queue |
| 2025-02-04 | (unnamed) | Battery | 150 MW | Withdrawn2025-12-02 |
What the record shows
- 1,732 MW of the 3,126 MW filed here withdrew, and 1,093 MW reached commercial operation.
- Completions here took between 0.9 and 3.8 years from request to commercial operation (median 1.7).
- The largest request filed here, 612 MW (gas), withdrew 0.3 years after filing.
- Five requests were filed on 2017-03-24; 2 reached operation and 3 withdrew.
- Five of the 12 withdrawals came within a year of filing.
- By technology, the requests here were gas 8, battery 7, oil 3, solar 3.
- The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2022-04-01.
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.
- One request is 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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