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Hood River County, OR interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Hood River County, OR, requesting 234 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 5 have been withdrawn since 2009.

Pending applications
1
of 7 ever filed
Capacity queued
234 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
5 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
16.7%
5 withdrawn
Median wait
2.7 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
8 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by BPA. 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 Hood River County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Wind1234 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built15 MW14.3%
Still pending1234 MW14.3%
Withdrawn5243 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
G1036Wind234 MWactive2023-11BPA
G0554Wind148 MWwithdrawn2016-10BPA
G0553Wind70 MWwithdrawn2016-08BPA
309Wind20 MWwithdrawn2009-12PacifiCorp
643Hydro5 MWcompleted2015-02PacifiCorp
279Hydro5 MWwithdrawn2009-06PacifiCorp
358Hydro0 MWwithdrawn2010-11PacifiCorp

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 3 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Pyramid Substation14 MWwithdrawnBPAnot stated
Hood River Loads5 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Oregon Mines4 MWwithdrawnBPAnot stated

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

Hood River County ranks #868 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #21 of 30 in Oregon.

Other Oregon counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Sherman County3114.6 GW
Crook County3614.2 GW
Wasco County199.9 GW
Morrow County216.5 GW
Klamath County145.3 GW
Umatilla County184.2 GW
Jefferson County214.2 GW
Gilliam County163.8 GW

Go deeper on Hood River 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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