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Bingham County, ID interconnection queue

8 interconnection applications are pending in Bingham County, ID, requesting 1.8 GW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 32 have been withdrawn since 2005.

Pending applications
8
of 42 ever filed
Capacity queued
1.8 GW
requested, not committed
Already built
152 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
3.0%
32 withdrawn
Median wait
2.1 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
160 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by IP, PacifiCorp. 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 Bingham County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Wind4857 MW
Solar3853 MW
Nuclear145 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built1152 MW2.4%
Still pending81.8 GW19.0%
Withdrawn324.8 GW76.2%
Suspended12.4%

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
1172Wind450 MWwithdrawn2019-10PacifiCorp
TCS-47Wind450 MWwithdrawn2019-10PacifiCorp
T2-029Solar398 MWactive2025-09PacifiCorp
C3-104Wind300 MWwithdrawn2023-05PacifiCorp
C4-018Wind300 MWwithdrawn2024-05PacifiCorp
C4-106Wind300 MWwithdrawn2024-05PacifiCorp
T2-025Wind300 MWactive2025-09PacifiCorp
737Solar280 MWactive2023-09IP
580Solar263 MWwithdrawn2020-05IP
C2-92Wind206 MWactive2022-05PacifiCorp
PIS023Wind206 MWwithdrawn2022-06PacifiCorp
623Solar200 MWwithdrawn2021-10IP
C3-183Solar200 MWwithdrawn2023-05PacifiCorp
782Wind199 MWactive2025-04IP
C2-76Solar199 MWwithdrawn2022-05PacifiCorp

How this county ranks

Bingham County ranks #225 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #3 of 27 in Idaho.

Other Idaho counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Elmore County102.5 GW
Ada County112.0 GW
Power County41.6 GW
Owyhee County5993 MW
Canyon County4594 MW
Jerome County2320 MW
Bannock County2301 MW
Kootenai County4255 MW

Go deeper on Bingham 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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