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Pennington County, SD interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Pennington County, SD, requesting 115 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 2 projects have been built here and 8 have been withdrawn since 2001.

Pending applications
1
of 11 ever filed
Capacity queued
115 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
204 MW
2 projects connected
Built vs decided
20.0%
8 withdrawn
Median wait
2.2 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
278 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by BHP. 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 Pennington County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Gas1115 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built2204 MW18.2%
Still pending1115 MW9.1%
Withdrawn81.3 GW72.7%
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
GI-1106Coal500 MWwithdrawn2011-11WAPA-IS
GI-0813Wind200 MWwithdrawn2008-06WAPA-IS
GI-1104Wind200 MWwithdrawn2011-09WAPA-IS
GEN-2017-097Solar128 MWcompleted2017-05SPP
BHBE G26Gas125 MWwithdrawn2024-06BHP
BHBE G25Gas115 MWactive2024-06BHP
GI-0504Wind100 MWwithdrawn2005-01WAPA-IS
GI-1005Wind99 MWwithdrawn2010-03WAPA-IS
GI-0507Gas76 MWcompleted2005-03WAPA-IS
GI-0102Gas40 MWwithdrawn2001-04WAPA-IS
GEN-2017-096Solar25 MWwithdrawn2017-05SPP

How this county ranks

Pennington County ranks #1072 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #11 of 19 in South Dakota.

Other South Dakota counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Campbell County102.1 GW
Deuel County21.3 GW
Brookings County2980 MW
Grant County2500 MW
McPherson County2400 MW
Brown County3374 MW
Day County1300 MW
Bon Homme County1200 MW

Go deeper on Pennington 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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