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PJM · Virginia

Hopewell Cogeneration Facility (HCF) filed twice, and both were built.

Hopewell 230 kV

Six interconnection requests since 2006: 3 reached commercial operation, 3 withdrew.

Built
3
Withdrawn
3
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
2006-10-30(unnamed)Gas18 MWWithdrawn2010-04-27
2008-02-20(unnamed)Coal20 MWBuilt2009-09-28 · 1.6 yrs
2010-05-19(unnamed)Gas18 MWWithdrawn2010-12-22
2012-10-19Hopewell Cogeneration Facility (HCF)Gas8 MWBuilt2013-06-01 · 0.6 yrs
2012-10-23Hopewell Cogeneration Facility (HCF)Gas30 MWBuilt2017-12-20 · 5.2 yrs
2016-04-29(unnamed)Gas54 MWWithdrawn2017-02-01

What the record shows

  • Three of the six requests at this node withdrew, and 90 MW of the 148 MW filed here never reached operation.
  • Completions here took between 0.6 and 5.2 years from request to commercial operation.
  • The largest request ever filed here, 54 MW, withdrew 0.8 years after filing.
  • Hopewell Cogeneration Facility (HCF) appears two times in the queue at this node, all filed in 2012, of which two reached operation.
  • No request at this node remains active, so its record is settled.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • With six requests, nothing at this node generalises to another; it is a record, not a rate.
  • Four of the six requests are unnamed in the dataset, so nothing here can be attributed to a developer.
  • The dataset records no withdrawal reasons, study costs or upgrade assignments, so those remain unknowns on this record.

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.