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Thurston County, WA interconnection queue

2 interconnection applications are pending in Thurston County, WA, requesting 427 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 0 projects have been built here and 11 have been withdrawn since 2017.

Pending applications
2
of 14 ever filed
Capacity queued
427 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
0 MW
0 projects connected
Built vs decided
0.0%
11 withdrawn
Median wait
3.8 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
149 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 Thurston County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar1300 MW
Battery1127 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built00 MW0.0%
Still pending2427 MW14.3%
Withdrawn111.6 GW78.6%
Suspended17.1%

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
G0921Wind718 MWwithdrawn2023-09BPA
141Solar300 MWactive2024-02PSE
53Solar198 MWwithdrawn2017-10PSE
102Battery150 MWsuspended2021-04PSE
112Battery127 MWactive2021-06PSE
132Battery127 MWwithdrawn2022-05PSE
63Solar105 MWwithdrawn2018-08PSE
118Battery100 MWwithdrawn2021-08PSE
134Battery100 MWwithdrawn2022-08PSE
82Battery100 MWwithdrawn2020-05PSE
89Battery100 MWwithdrawn2020-08PSE
62Battery40 MWwithdrawn2018-08PSE
G0942Battery20 MWwithdrawn2023-09BPA
G0830Battery20 MWwithdrawn2022-12BPA

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
Taylor Substation25 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Upriver McKenzie Reliability Improvement Project0 MWactiveBPAnot stated
Network Connection, 230 kV loop lineactiveBPAnot 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

Thurston County ranks #670 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #20 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 Thurston 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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