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requesting 640 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 2 projects have been built here and 15 have been withdrawn since 2000.
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
| Fuel | Projects | Capacity requested |
|---|---|---|
| Battery | 2 | 600 MW |
| Solar | 2 | 40 MW |
Outcomes of every application filed here
| Outcome | Projects | Capacity | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built | 2 | 20 MW | 9.5% |
| Still pending | 4 | 640 MW | 19.0% |
| Withdrawn | 15 | 605 MW | 71.4% |
| Suspended | 0 | — | 0.0% |
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
| Project | Fuel | Capacity | Status | Filed | Queue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willard Storage | Battery | 300 MW | active | 2024-09 | NYISO |
| Willard Storage (NYISO-C24-148) | Battery | 300 MW | active | 2024-12 | ISONE |
| Topaz Storage Project | Battery | 200 MW | withdrawn | 2021-09 | NYISO |
| Empire Wind | Wind | 120 MW | withdrawn | 2015-10 | NYISO |
| Speckhardt Energy Storage | Battery | 100 MW | withdrawn | 2022-12 | NYISO |
| NY Schodack 634 Knickerbocker Rd Storage | Battery | 57 MW | withdrawn | 2022-07 | NYISO |
| NY Nassau 0 Waterbury Rd Storage A | Battery | 25 MW | withdrawn | 2022-04 | NYISO |
| CS Hawthorn Solar | Solar | 20 MW | active | 2019-05 | NYISO |
| Hilltop Solar | Solar | 20 MW | withdrawn | 2019-03 | NYISO |
| Craillo Plaza | Battery | 20 MW | withdrawn | 2019-12 | NYISO |
| Knickerbocker Solar | Battery | 20 MW | withdrawn | 2020-06 | NYISO |
| Half Moon Solar | Battery | 20 MW | withdrawn | 2020-06 | NYISO |
| Hosmer Solar, LLC | Solar | 20 MW | withdrawn | 2020-09 | NYISO |
| Stephentown | Other | 20 MW | completed | 2007-09 | NYISO |
| Solar | Solar | 20 MW | active | 2021-07 | ISONE |
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
| County | Pending | Capacity queued |
|---|---|---|
| Kings County | 7 | 2.7 GW |
| Suffolk County | 21 | 2.5 GW |
| Genesee County | 5 | 1.2 GW |
| Franklin County | 6 | 950 MW |
| Chautauqua County | 6 | 881 MW |
| Dutchess County | 5 | 854 MW |
| Montgomery County | 6 | 790 MW |
| Steuben County | 5 | 788 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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