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Stevens County, WA interconnection queue

3 interconnection applications are pending in Stevens County, WA, requesting 147 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 0 projects have been built here and 3 have been withdrawn since 2018.

Pending applications
3
of 7 ever filed
Capacity queued
147 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
0 MW
0 projects connected
Built vs decided
0.0%
3 withdrawn
Median wait
7.7 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
61 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 Stevens County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Other2142 MW
Solar15 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built00 MW0.0%
Still pending3147 MW42.9%
Withdrawn315 MW42.9%
Suspended114.3%

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
66Other71 MWactive2018-07Avista
Q66Other71 MWactiveAvista
105Solar5 MWwithdrawn2020-03Avista
84Solar5 MWactive2019-04Avista
Q84Solar5 MWwithdrawnAvista
TCS-12Solar5 MWwithdrawn2020-03Avista
hist_q71Other4 MWsuspendedIP

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 2 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Tiger Highway12 MWactiveBPAnot stated
AddywithdrawnBPAnot 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

Stevens County ranks #1025 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #26 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 Stevens 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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