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Rensselaer County, NY interconnection queue

4 interconnection applications are pending in Rensselaer County, NY, requesting 640 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 2 projects have been built here and 15 have been withdrawn since 2000.

Pending applications
4
of 21 ever filed
Capacity queued
640 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
20 MW
2 projects connected
Built vs decided
11.8%
15 withdrawn
Median wait
3.5 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
949 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by ISONE, 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 Rensselaer County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery2600 MW
Solar240 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built220 MW9.5%
Still pending4640 MW19.0%
Withdrawn15605 MW71.4%
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
Willard StorageBattery300 MWactive2024-09NYISO
Willard Storage (NYISO-C24-148)Battery300 MWactive2024-12ISONE
Topaz Storage ProjectBattery200 MWwithdrawn2021-09NYISO
Empire WindWind120 MWwithdrawn2015-10NYISO
Speckhardt Energy StorageBattery100 MWwithdrawn2022-12NYISO
NY Schodack 634 Knickerbocker Rd StorageBattery57 MWwithdrawn2022-07NYISO
NY Nassau 0 Waterbury Rd Storage ABattery25 MWwithdrawn2022-04NYISO
CS Hawthorn SolarSolar20 MWactive2019-05NYISO
Hilltop SolarSolar20 MWwithdrawn2019-03NYISO
Craillo PlazaBattery20 MWwithdrawn2019-12NYISO
Knickerbocker SolarBattery20 MWwithdrawn2020-06NYISO
Half Moon SolarBattery20 MWwithdrawn2020-06NYISO
Hosmer Solar, LLCSolar20 MWwithdrawn2020-09NYISO
StephentownOther20 MWcompleted2007-09NYISO
SolarSolar20 MWactive2021-07ISONE

How this county ranks

Rensselaer County ranks #537 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #13 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 Rensselaer 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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