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Spokane County, WA interconnection queue

11 interconnection applications are pending in Spokane County, WA, requesting 973 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 19 have been withdrawn since 2007.

Pending applications
11
of 31 ever filed
Capacity queued
973 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
8 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
5.0%
19 withdrawn
Median wait
2.3 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
192 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by Avista. 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 Spokane County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Wind3520 MW
Battery4353 MW
Solar4100 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built18 MW3.2%
Still pending11973 MW35.5%
Withdrawn191.9 GW61.3%
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
G0993Battery300 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
CS25-08Battery250 MWactive2025-04Avista
G0987Wind200 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
G0988Wind200 MWwithdrawn2023-11BPA
CS25-15Wind200 MWactive2025-04Avista
CS25-17Wind200 MWactive2025-04Avista
6Wind150 MWwithdrawn2007-09Avista
CS25-10Solar150 MWwithdrawn2025-04Avista
23Wind121 MWwithdrawn2009-10Avista
104Wind120 MWactive2020-03Avista
CS23-03Wind120 MWwithdrawn2023-04Avista
CS25-01Wind120 MWwithdrawn2025-04Avista
TCS-11Wind120 MWwithdrawn2020-03Avista
CS23-01Solar100 MWwithdrawn2023-04Avista
CS24-04Battery100 MWwithdrawn2024-04Avista

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 9 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Mixed Use Load170 MWwithdrawnBPAnot stated
Trentwood 115 kV79 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Five Mile 115 kV36 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Staley Substation18 MWactiveBPAnot stated
New 115 kV Creston Substation10 MWactiveBPAnot stated
L0517 Midway Substation9 MWactiveBPAnot stated
16th Avenue9 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Garden Springs0 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Bell-Boundary #1 230 kVactiveBPAnot 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

Spokane County ranks #379 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #8 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
Lewis County3964 MW

Go deeper on Spokane 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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