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Cumberland County, PA interconnection queue

2 interconnection applications are pending in Cumberland County, PA, requesting 30 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 3 projects have been built here and 23 have been withdrawn since 2006.

Pending applications
2
of 28 ever filed
Capacity queued
30 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
73 MW
3 projects connected
Built vs decided
11.5%
23 withdrawn
Median wait
5.9 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
74 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 Cumberland County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar230 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built373 MW10.7%
Still pending230 MW7.1%
Withdrawn23279 MW82.1%
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
Mountain 2 115 kVGas55 MWcompleted2019-09PJM
West Carlisle-Newville 1 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2010-07PJM
West Carlisle-Newville 2 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2010-07PJM
Cumberland-W. Shore 3 #1 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2010-09PJM
Cumberland-W. Shore 3 #2 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2010-09PJM
Cumberland-W. Shore #1 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2011-05PJM
Cumberland-W. Shore #2 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2011-05PJM
Cumberland - W. Shore #1 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2011-11PJM
Cumberland - W. Shore #2 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2011-11PJM
Cumberland-West Shore 69kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2012-08PJM
Gardners-Mountain 115 kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2019-03PJM
Roxbury 23 kVSolar20 MWactive2020-03PJM
Mountain 115 kVSolar20 MWwithdrawn2020-09PJM
Cumberland County LandfillGas11 MWcompleted2010-05PJM
Newville-West Carlise 69 kVSolar10 MWwithdrawn2018-09PJM

How this county ranks

Cumberland County ranks #1207 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #30 of 62 in Pennsylvania.

Other Pennsylvania counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
York County62.9 GW
Clearfield County111.5 GW
Indiana County31.2 GW
Dauphin County3896 MW
McKean County4870 MW
Centre County5591 MW
Fayette County4310 MW
Crawford County6248 MW

Go deeper on Cumberland 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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