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King County, WA interconnection queue

3 interconnection applications are pending in King County, WA, requesting 386 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 5 projects have been built here and 10 have been withdrawn since 2001.

Pending applications
3
of 21 ever filed
Capacity queued
386 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
33 MW
5 projects connected
Built vs decided
33.3%
10 withdrawn
Median wait
2.7 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
167 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by BPA, PSE. 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 King County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery3386 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built533 MW23.8%
Still pending3386 MW14.3%
Withdrawn101.2 GW47.6%
Suspended314.3%

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
Enron Power MarketingGas300 MWwithdrawn2001-11BPA
Cedar Hills Energy LLCGas300 MWwithdrawn2001-05BPA
99Battery250 MWsuspended2021-04PSE
101Battery200 MWsuspended2021-04PSE
138Battery175 MWwithdrawn2023-05PSE
G1014Battery156 MWactive2023-11BPA
136Battery150 MWwithdrawn2022-10PSE
139Battery130 MWactive2023-12PSE
121Battery125 MWsuspended2021-08PSE
143Battery100 MWwithdrawn2024-04PSE
148Battery100 MWactive2024-04PSE
76Battery100 MWwithdrawn2019-09PSE
3Other27 MWwithdrawn2005-05PSE
27Hydro10 MWwithdrawn2010-08PSE
31Hydro8 MWcompleted2011-02PSE

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 4 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Grand Ridge Substation25 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Bridgeport I5 Commercial/Industrial Project21 MWenergizedBPAnot stated
Mt. SiwithdrawnBPAnot stated
Novelty SubstationwithdrawnBPAnot 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

King County ranks #711 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #23 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
Douglas County83.6 GW
Walla Walla County81.7 GW
Lincoln County81.6 GW
Spokane County11973 MW

Go deeper on King 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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