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York County, ME interconnection queue

3 interconnection applications are pending in York County, ME, requesting 216 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 10 projects have been built here and 15 have been withdrawn since 2001.

Pending applications
3
of 28 ever filed
Capacity queued
216 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
244 MW
10 projects connected
Built vs decided
40.0%
15 withdrawn
Median wait
6.3 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
158 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by ISONE. 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 York County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar3216 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built10244 MW35.7%
Still pending3216 MW10.7%
Withdrawn15546 MW53.6%
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
SolarSolar180 MWactive2023-07ISONE
SolarSolar150 MWwithdrawn2016-10ISONE
Solar CNR onlySolar150 MWwithdrawn2019-11ISONE
Battery StorageBattery51 MWwithdrawn2022-04ISONE
Sanford Airport SolarSolar50 MWcompleted2015-12ISONE
Sanford Airport Solar CNR onlySolar50 MWcompleted2016-04ISONE
SolarSolar50 MWwithdrawn2018-12ISONE
Sanford Airport Solar CNR onlySolar50 MWcompleted2019-03ISONE
Sanford Airport Solar CNR OnlySolar50 MWcompleted2022-05ISONE
Sanford/Quaker Hill CMP Cluster 4Solar21 MWwithdrawn2022-03ISONE
Mousam River SolarSolar20 MWcompleted2019-08ISONE
GDC Saco SolarSolar20 MWactive2019-10ISONE
SolarSolar20 MWwithdrawn2024-06ISONE
Keay Brook Energy SolarSolar20 MWwithdrawn2018-09ISONE
Saco SolarSolar20 MWwithdrawn2019-07ISONE

How this county ranks

York County ranks #886 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #2 of 13 in Maine.

Other Maine counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Knox County3268 MW
Somerset County2158 MW
Hancock County1100 MW
Androscoggin County240 MW
Oxford County118 MW
Cumberland County117 MW
Aroostook County00 MW
Franklin County00 MW

Go deeper on York 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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