generator interconnection queue
New Jersey’s Senate Environment and Energy Committee passed a bill supporters said would allow grid-scale solar projects of up to 20 MW to bypass PJM’s interconnection queue and connect to the grid through their local utility.
FERC authorized an exception to MISO’s interconnection rights transfer process, allowing two Xcel Energy subsidiaries to cooperate on a replacement of a coal-fired plant with a solar farm.
MISO said new queue entries must wait while it takes another swing at imposing an annual megawatt cap on its interconnection queue.
PJM completed the first phase of studies for 306 generation interconnection requests in the transition to its new interconnection process.
MISO announced that 123 GW of new generation spread across 600 applications are vying to enter its generator interconnection queue under the 2023 cycle.
SPP publicly alerted stakeholders it failed to conduct a tariff-required analysis of several GI queue study clusters during their effort to reduce the backlog of GI requests dating back to 2017.
Transmission development and siting reform were a central theme at the 2024 New York Energy Summit.
Interconnection requests across the U.S. shot up by 30% in 2023, with close to 2,600 GW of solar, wind and storage waiting to land a spot on the grid.
NYISO informed the Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee and Electric System Planning Working Group it intends to seek a May 2 effective date for Order 2023.
FERC rejected challenges to its new generator interconnection rules under Order 2023, while making minor modifications and extending the compliance date.
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