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Montgomery County, MD interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Montgomery County, MD, requesting 500 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 10 projects have been built here and 15 have been withdrawn since 1997.

Pending applications
1
of 26 ever filed
Capacity queued
500 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
326 MW
10 projects connected
Built vs decided
40.0%
15 withdrawn
Median wait
5.9 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
500 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by PJM. 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 Montgomery County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery1500 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built10326 MW38.5%
Still pending1500 MW3.8%
Withdrawn152.5 GW57.7%
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
DickersonGas600 MWwithdrawn2008-07PJM
Dickerson 230 kVBattery500 MWactive2020-10PJM
Dickerson 230kVGas440 MWwithdrawn2011-10PJM
Dickerson 230kVGas400 MWwithdrawn2008-07PJM
DickersonGas398 MWwithdrawn1999-04PJM
Dickerson 230kVGas234 MWwithdrawn2001-02PJM
Dickerson H2 CT 230 kVGas173 MWcompleted2020-03PJM
Dickerson 230kVUnknown155 MWwithdrawn2011-11PJM
Dickerson 230 kVBattery150 MWwithdrawn2021-03PJM
Dickerson 120 MWGas120 MWwithdrawn1997-05PJM
White OakGas53 MWcompleted2010-11PJM
NIH 13kVOil25 MWcompleted2000-07PJM
White OakGas24 MWcompleted2009-07PJM
Dickerson 230kVGas20 MWcompleted2001-01PJM
White OakGas20 MWcompleted2005-12PJM

How this county ranks

Montgomery County ranks #617 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #4 of 22 in Maryland.

Other Maryland counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Prince George's County21.5 GW
Garrett County3675 MW
Harford County1500 MW
Caroline County1145 MW
Baltimore city1135 MW
Charles County1110 MW
Allegany County180 MW
Anne Arundel County155 MW

Go deeper on Montgomery 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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