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Mercer County, NJ interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Mercer County, NJ, requesting 170 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 6 projects have been built here and 19 have been withdrawn since 2000.

Pending applications
1
of 26 ever filed
Capacity queued
170 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
17 MW
6 projects connected
Built vs decided
24.0%
19 withdrawn
Median wait
6.9 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
121 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 Mercer County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery1170 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built617 MW23.1%
Still pending1170 MW3.8%
Withdrawn19745 MW73.1%
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
Mercer 230kVGas550 MWwithdrawn2000-07PJM
Mercer 230 kVBattery170 MWactive2019-09PJM
Windsor 230 kVBattery100 MWwithdrawn2020-01PJM
Pleasant Valley 230 kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2019-09PJM
Twin Rivers-Windsor 34.5kVSolar13 MWwithdrawn2010-09PJM
Yardville 138kVSolar10 MWwithdrawn2011-04PJM
Lawrence 26kVSolar10 MWwithdrawn2011-04PJM
HightstownSolar10 MWwithdrawn2011-07PJM
Lawrence 26kVSolar9 MWwithdrawn2011-01PJM
Crosswicks 13kVSolar8 MWcompleted2010-04PJM
Princeton University 69 kVSolar5 MWcompleted2020-03PJM
AH2-254Solar5 MWwithdrawn2022-03PJM
Yardville 13kVSolar4 MWwithdrawn2012-02PJM
Laurence 13.2 kVSolar4 MWwithdrawn2018-12PJM
AE2-198Solar3 MWwithdrawn2019-03PJM

How this county ranks

Mercer County ranks #976 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #8 of 21 in New Jersey.

Other New Jersey counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Salem County32.8 GW
Bergen County22.0 GW
Union County21.6 GW
Hudson County2350 MW
Atlantic County3308 MW
Camden County1300 MW
Warren County7181 MW
Cumberland County3149 MW

Go deeper on Mercer 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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