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Nelson-Electric Junction 345 kV: interconnection queue history

Three of nine requests withdrew; six are still in the queue.

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Nine interconnection requests since 2005: 3 withdrew and 6 remain active.

Built
0
Withdrawn
3
Still in queue
6

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
2005-10-26Walnut Ridge Wind FarmWind210 MWWithdrawn2016-12-14
2019-12-09Steward Creek SolarSolar300 MWStill in queue
2020-03-24Steward Creek SolarSolar100 MWStill in queue
2020-03-24Steward Creek SolarSolar200 MWStill in queue
2020-09-30(unnamed)Battery10 MWWithdrawn2024-06-21
2020-09-30(unnamed)Battery30 MWWithdrawn2024-06-21
2025-02-04(unnamed)Solar200 MWStill in queue
2025-02-04(unnamed)Solar200 MWStill in queue
2025-02-04(unnamed)Solar200 MWStill in queue

What the record shows

  • 250 MW of the 1,450 MW filed here withdrew.
  • The largest request filed here, 300 MW (solar), was filed in 2019 and is still active.
  • Three requests were filed on 2025-02-04; all of them remain active.
  • None of the 3 withdrawals came within a year of filing; the quickest took 3.7 years.
  • By technology, the requests here were solar 6, battery 2, wind 1.
  • The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2019-12-09.
  • The dataset records this point of interconnection under three spellings, which are combined here.

What a decision record would have to make explicit

  • None of the resolved requests at this node reached operation, and the public record does not say why.
  • Six 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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