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Cherokee County, AL interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Cherokee County, AL, requesting 170 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 0 projects have been built here and 5 have been withdrawn since 2012.

Pending applications
1
of 6 ever filed
Capacity queued
170 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
0 MW
0 projects connected
Built vs decided
0.0%
5 withdrawn
Median wait
1.3 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
88 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by SOCO. Parsed and normalised by Watt Street. Data as of 15 August 2026. A queued project is a request, not a commitment.

What is waiting in Cherokee County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar1170 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built00 MW0.0%
Still pending1170 MW16.7%
Withdrawn5338 MW83.3%
Suspended00.0%

Withdrawal is the ordinary outcome of an interconnection application nationally, not a sign of a problem in this county. Most withdrawals are a developer testing a site and moving on.

The largest projects on file

ProjectFuelCapacityStatusFiledQueue
25-IC-1361Solar170 MWactive2025-04SOCO
235Other101 MWwithdrawn2012-05TVA
IC-970Solar80 MWwithdrawn2021-06SOCO
236Other70 MWwithdrawn2012-05TVA
IC-1009Solar68 MWwithdrawn2022-01SOCO
238Other19 MWwithdrawn2012-09TVA

How this county ranks

Cherokee County ranks #973 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #15 of 35 in Alabama.

Other Alabama counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Mobile County41.2 GW
Colbert County2958 MW
Perry County4656 MW
Morgan County1528 MW
Autauga County4478 MW
Limestone County4471 MW
Baldwin County3459 MW
Jackson County2399 MW

Go deeper on Cherokee County

The interactive map plots every one of these applications, and a generated county report puts them in a sourced PDF with the date each figure was true on every page.

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