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Skagit County, WA interconnection queue

5 interconnection applications are pending in Skagit County, WA, requesting 589 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 3 projects have been built here and 20 have been withdrawn since 2001.

Pending applications
5
of 29 ever filed
Capacity queued
589 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
146 MW
3 projects connected
Built vs decided
13.0%
20 withdrawn
Median wait
2.3 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
648 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by 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 Skagit County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Battery3400 MW
Gas1188 MW
Other11 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built3146 MW10.3%
Still pending5589 MW17.2%
Withdrawn203.4 GW69.0%
Suspended13.4%

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
600 MW Monroe-CusterGas600 MWwithdrawn2001-03BPA
23Gas367 MWwithdrawn2010-04PSE
G0986Wind300 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
30Gas232 MWwithdrawn2011-02PSE
28Gas225 MWwithdrawn2010-11PSE
103Battery200 MWsuspended2021-04PSE
105Battery200 MWwithdrawn2021-04PSE
108Battery200 MWwithdrawn2021-04PSE
147Battery200 MWwithdrawn2024-04PSE
21Gas200 MWwithdrawn2010-02PSE
87Battery200 MWactive2020-07PSE
153Gas188 MWactive2024-04PSE
142Wind150 MWwithdrawn2024-03PSE
G0992Wind131 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
127Battery100 MWwithdrawn2021-11PSE

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 1 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Decatur Island TapactiveBPAnot 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

Skagit County ranks #565 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #14 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 Skagit 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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