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Fremont County, ID interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Fremont County, ID, requesting 195 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 4 have been withdrawn since 2010.

Pending applications
1
of 6 ever filed
Capacity queued
195 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
9 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
20.0%
4 withdrawn
Median wait
2.9 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
24 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by BPA. 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 Fremont County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar1195 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built19 MW16.7%
Still pending1195 MW16.7%
Withdrawn4177 MW66.7%
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
G0945Solar195 MWactive2023-10BPA
G1033Solar170 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
FLRVOther9 MWcompletedIP
344Hydro4 MWwithdrawn2010-06PacifiCorp
1182Hydro2 MWwithdrawn2019-10PacifiCorp
TCS-49Hydro2 MWwithdrawn2019-10PacifiCorp

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 1 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Drummond-Macks Inn 46 kV to 115 kV Conversion8 MWactiveBPAnot stated

494 of the 545 large-load requests we hold state no end use at all, so most cannot be attributed to any industry. Where this table says “not stated”, that is the filing’s own silence, not our omission.

How this county ranks

Fremont County ranks #945 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #13 of 27 in Idaho.

Other Idaho counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Elmore County102.5 GW
Ada County112.0 GW
Bingham County81.8 GW
Power County41.6 GW
Owyhee County5993 MW
Canyon County4594 MW
Jerome County2320 MW
Bannock County2301 MW

Go deeper on Fremont 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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