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Douglas County, WA interconnection queue

8 interconnection applications are pending in Douglas County, WA, requesting 3.6 GW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 17 have been withdrawn since 2005.

Pending applications
8
of 28 ever filed
Capacity queued
3.6 GW
requested, not committed
Already built
345 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
5.6%
17 withdrawn
Median wait
3.4 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
2.5 GW
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 Douglas County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar42.2 GW
Wind1768 MW
Battery3674 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built1345 MW3.6%
Still pending83.6 GW28.6%
Withdrawn175.0 GW60.7%
Suspended27.1%

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
G0914Battery1.0 GWwithdrawn2023-07BPA
G1025Wind768 MWactive2023-11BPA
G0853Solar615 MWactive2023-03BPA
G0840Solar615 MWactive2023-02BPA
G0753Solar532 MWactive2022-06BPA
G0916Battery522 MWactive2023-07BPA
G0915Battery500 MWwithdrawn2023-07BPA
G0641Solar500 MWwithdrawn2020-02BPA
G0729Solar450 MWwithdrawn2022-02BPA
G1035Solar407 MWactive2023-11BPA
G0820Solar400 MWwithdrawn2022-11BPA
G0490Hydro345 MWcompleted2013-07BPA
G0639Solar300 MWwithdrawn2020-02BPA
G0276Wind300 MWwithdrawn2007-07BPA
1Solar250 MWwithdrawn2018-08CPUD

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
Wallula 500kV5 MWwithdrawnBPAnot stated
Grant Rocky FordactiveBPAnot stated
Lauderdale ProjectactiveBPAnot 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

Douglas County ranks #87 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #5 of 30 in Washington.

Other Washington counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Benton County2010.5 GW
Yakima County146.5 GW
Klickitat County236.2 GW
Grant County133.7 GW
Walla Walla County81.7 GW
Lincoln County81.6 GW
Spokane County11973 MW
Lewis County3964 MW

Go deeper on Douglas 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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