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Erie County, NY interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Erie County, NY, requesting 20 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 2 projects have been built here and 18 have been withdrawn since 2006.

Pending applications
1
of 21 ever filed
Capacity queued
20 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
35 MW
2 projects connected
Built vs decided
10.0%
18 withdrawn
Median wait
7.4 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
216 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by NYISO. 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 Erie County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery120 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built235 MW9.5%
Still pending120 MW4.8%
Withdrawn181.5 GW85.7%
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
CWW 300 WindWind300 MWwithdrawn2019-04NYISO
Genesee Road Solar Energy CenterSolar250 MWwithdrawn2019-05NYISO
River Road StorageBattery250 MWwithdrawn2024-01NYISO
CWW 200 WindWind200 MWwithdrawn2019-04NYISO
Levy Grid, LLCBattery150 MWwithdrawn2018-12NYISO
Pirates IslandBattery100 MWwithdrawn2019-06NYISO
Cayuga Grid, LLCBattery100 MWwithdrawn2019-12NYISO
Alden SolarSolar25 MWwithdrawn2018-06NYISO
KCE NY 10Battery20 MWactive2019-03NYISO
Niagara Grid IBattery20 MWwithdrawn2019-11NYISO
Kenmore Energy Storage ProjectBattery20 MWwithdrawn2023-03NYISO
Mulberry Energy Storage ProjectBattery20 MWwithdrawn2023-03NYISO
ELP Holland SolarBattery20 MWwithdrawn2023-07NYISO
KCE NY 6Battery20 MWcompleted2018-09NYISO
Eden Evans RdSolar18 MWwithdrawn2017-09NYISO

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
Data & Technology Campus300 MWactiveNYISODAT

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

Erie County ranks #1219 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #47 of 57 in New York.

Other New York counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Kings County72.7 GW
Suffolk County212.5 GW
Genesee County51.2 GW
Franklin County6950 MW
Chautauqua County6881 MW
Dutchess County5854 MW
Montgomery County6790 MW
Steuben County5788 MW

Go deeper on Erie 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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