Southeast · North Carolina · Public-record retrospective
Smith Energy Complex 230 kV: interconnection queue history
456 MW filed. 32 MW built.
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Six interconnection requests since 2012: 1 reached commercial operation and 5 remain active.
- Built
- 1
- Withdrawn
- 0
- Still in queue
- 5
The queue record
Every interconnection request the dataset records at this point of interconnection, in filing order.
This page reads 6 dataset rows at the Duke Energy Progress plant bus in Richmond County, North Carolina that the dataset names Smith, Richmond County Plant 230 kV, Richmond County Plant Substation 230kV or Richmond Plant 230 kV (the Sherwood H. Smith Jr. Energy Complex, formerly the Richmond County Plant), recorded under four point-of-interconnection names. The dataset's Southeast region is compiled from the utilities' own public queues. Five requests at a point the dataset calls Richmond 230 kV are not included, because the dataset does not tie that name to the plant.
| Requested | Project | Technology | Capacity | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-30 | (unnamed) | Gas | 32 MW | Built2012-11-01 · 0.8 yrs |
| 2023-06-28 | (unnamed) | Gas | 46.75 MW | Still in queue |
| 2024-06-10 | (unnamed) | Gas | 35 MW | Still in queue |
| 2025-04-01 | (unnamed) | Gas | 35 MW | Still in queue |
| 2025-04-01 | (unnamed) | Gas | 46.8 MW | Still in queue |
| 2025-06-26 | (unnamed) | Gas | 260 MW | Still in queue |
What the record shows
- 32 MW of the 456 MW filed here reached commercial operation.
- The one request that reached operation took 0.8 years from request to commercial operation.
- The largest request filed here, 260 MW (gas), was filed in 2025 and is still active.
- Two requests were filed on 2025-04-01; all of them remain active.
- The longest-standing active request here was filed on 2023-06-28.
What a decision record would have to make explicit
- Every resolved request at this node reached operation. That describes past outcomes, not the capacity available at this node today.
- Five 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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The whole North Carolina queue record, by market, resource and year filed: North Carolina interconnection queue. Comparing candidate nodes for a project? Read how to choose a point of interconnection.