GridSolve
Interconnection intelligence

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GridSolve re-scores every substation in the U.S. interconnection queue by withdrawal-adjusted capacity — the megawatts likely to remain once the dead projects clogging the queue drop out.

4,687 substations · 9 regions
survives · deliverablewithdraws · vapor

Utility hosting-capacity maps count dead queue projects as if they were real.

A developer looking at published capacity sees megawatts already spoken for by speculative projects — most of which will never be built. Promising sites look full; full sites look promising.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds roughly 75% of proposed capacity in U.S. interconnection queues ultimately withdraws before reaching commercial operation.

In this data, GridSolve's model estimates a base withdrawal rate of 61%. Adjust for that, and the map of where power is actually deliverable looks very different.

Queued capacity, this dataset100%
Withdraws
61%

Likely to drop from the queue

Deliverable
39%

Realistically available power

Only the deliverable share is power you can actually count on.

From a clogged queue to deliverable megawatts, in three passes.

  1. 01

    Model the queue

    A survival model is fit on historical interconnection projects — who withdrew, when, and why.

  2. 02

    Predict withdrawals

    Each active project gets a withdrawal probability from its cluster, service type, and technology.

  3. 03

    Re-score capacity

    Published capacity is discounted by expected withdrawals to yield deliverable megawatts per substation.

A few features separate the projects that get built from the ones that vanish.

Hazard ratios above 1 raise the chance a project withdraws. Projects tangled in a cluster study are the clearest red flag — the queue's equivalent of a crowd that never moves.

What predicts withdrawal

hazard ratio
0
Substations
across 9 ISO/RTO regions
0
Active projects
in the national interconnection queue
0%
Withdrawal rate
capacity-weighted, national

See which substations still have room.

Explore substations nationwide ranked by capacity that's actually deliverable — not just what the queue claims.