What Is Queued to Connect in Colorado?

What is queued to connect in Colorado? As of July 9, 2026, the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot counts 78 projects totaling 14,011 MW (14.0 GW) with a point of interconnection in the state. Every one of those 78 is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project — a large share of queue positions nationally end up withdrawn before construction, though Colorado's own feed shows zero withdrawals at this snapshot, a number worth reading carefully rather than at face value.

This is a census of the published queues that our grid-queue clock captures daily, not of every project on every grid in the country: generation and storage projects sitting in the interconnection queues of the U.S. grid operators (ISOs and RTOs) that publish a machine-readable queue, as captured by our sealed daily grid snapshots.

Two things set Colorado's slice apart from most of this edition: all 78 of its projects sit inside a single regional operator's footprint rather than splitting across ISOs, and Hybrid — not Solar or Wind — is the largest fuel category by count, an unusual result against the pattern described in the full national queue index.

Key Findings

• Colorado's interconnection queue holds 78 projects totaling 14,011 MW, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot.

• Hybrid accounts for 22 of Colorado's 78 queued projects, a 28.2% share of the count.

• None of Colorado's queued projects show as withdrawn in this snapshot, versus 43.6% across the full edition.

• The largest single project queued in Colorado carries 500 MW, per the sealed snapshot.

• SPP's queue accounts for all 78 of Colorado's projects, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot — unlike several peer states in this edition, none of Colorado's count falls under a second regional operator.

Colorado Queue at a Glance, July 9, 2026

Colorado's 78 queued projects total 14,011 MW.

A 189 MW median against a 14,011 MW total describes a queue built from a wide base of mid-size proposals rather than one or two mega-projects carrying the state. The 500 MW largest project sits well above that median but is not the kind of single dominant entry that skews some state queues in this edition.

Colorado's 0.0% withdrawn figure is not necessarily a claim that nothing has ever dropped out of this queue. Some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely, which means a 0.0% figure can be a feed artifact rather than a track record — read it as a gap in what the source publishes, not evidence of a uniquely durable queue.

Because Colorado's feed reports 74 projects still in queue and only 4 already operational, the 94.9% in-queue share signals a young, largely unresolved pipeline — most of what has been filed has not yet reached either construction or withdrawal.

The Fuel Mix

Colorado's queue is grouped into the same six technology buckets used across every state in this edition — Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid, and Other — built from vendor labels that differ by ISO and standardized by keyword, not by our research team independently verifying each project's equipment.

Hybrid

Hybrid is the largest single category in Colorado's queue: 22 projects totaling 4,414 MW, a 28.2% share of the count. A hybrid listing combines two technologies — commonly solar or wind paired with battery storage — under one interconnection request, and Colorado's lead in this bucket is the most distinctive fact in this report: across most of this edition, Solar or Wind tops the fuel mix outright, and a state where paired-technology filings outnumber either single technology on its own is the exception rather than the rule.

Hybrid leads Colorado's fuel mix at a 28.2% share.

Wind

Wind holds 20 projects and 3,976 MW, running close behind Hybrid on both count and capacity. That near-parity between Colorado's top two categories is itself notable — this is not a queue with one runaway category, but two closely sized ones sitting ahead of a more conventional solar tier. By contrast, South Dakota's queue is led by Wind outright, a different profile from Colorado's Hybrid-first mix.

Solar

Solar carries 18 projects and 2,848 MW, the third-largest category by count. Nationally, Solar holds the largest fuel share in this edition at 33.8%; inside Colorado specifically, it trails both Hybrid and Wind, which is the clearest sign that this state's mix runs against the broader pattern rather than with it.

Battery Storage and Natural Gas

14 battery-storage projects total 1,734 MW, and 4 natural-gas projects carry 1,039 MW between them. The natural-gas count is small, but its per-project capacity is large by comparison — a single combined-cycle or peaker filing can carry hundreds of megawatts, which is why 4 projects still register a four-figure capacity total. Battery storage's 14-project count sits below Wind and Hybrid but ahead of Natural Gas, a middling position that is fairly typical of queues where storage has not yet caught up to the generation categories it is meant to firm.

The fuel labels above are grouped by keyword from each ISO's own vendor categories, not independently verified against each project's actual equipment. A "Hybrid" listing means the source feed used a combined label; it is not a claim that anyone has inspected the interconnection request itself.

How Colorado Compares

All 78 of Colorado's projects sit inside SPP's footprint, a much larger system running 963 projects and 188.9 GW across its full territory, with a 0.0% withdrawn share of its own and Wind as its top fuel at a 35.2% share. That SPP-wide Wind lead sits close to what Colorado itself shows in second place, even though Hybrid, not Wind, tops Colorado's own count.

All 78 of Colorado's projects sit inside SPP.

Against North Dakota's 109-project, 14.2 GW queue, Colorado runs a nearly identical total capacity on fewer projects — a sign of somewhat larger average project sizes. South Dakota's smaller 55-project, 6.8 GW slice underscores how much variation sits between neighboring states even within the same regional footprint. None of these three lead with Solar, which stands out against the 33.8% Solar share that tops the full 12,260-project edition nationally.

Colorado's single-ISO containment also breaks from its two closest peers in the table above: North Dakota attributes only 83 of its 109 projects to MISO, and South Dakota attributes only 43 of its 55, meaning both of those states split their queues across more than one regional operator while Colorado's full 78 stays inside SPP alone. A buyer comparing these three states side by side should treat that split, not just the raw project count, as part of what makes each queue harder or easier to track end to end.

Methodology

All figures in this report are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily grid-queue snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. Fuel and status labels are grouped from each ISO's own categories: vendor fuel and technology labels differ by ISO and are grouped into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid and Other by keyword — a research bucketing choice, not an official ISO taxonomy.

Each ISO publishes its own status taxonomy; statuses are grouped into withdrawn, operational (explicitly in-service or commercial operation), still-in-queue, and unknown for feeds that publish no status. Some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely, which is the caveat behind Colorado's 0.0% withdrawn figure above.

A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project — interconnection queues are aspirational, and a large share of projects nationally withdraw before construction. This report is cross-sectional: it reflects one sealed snapshot date, July 9, 2026, not a trend over time, and nothing in it should be read as a forecast of what will be built or when.

The snapshot is produced through a fixed pipeline:

1. Collect. Pull each covered ISO/RTO's published interconnection-queue feed on a daily cadence.

2. Normalize. Standardize project names, fuel labels, and status values against each source's own published taxonomy.

3. Bucket. Group fuel labels into the six technology buckets and status values into the four status buckets described above.

4. Seal. Content-hash the normalized snapshot so every figure in this report traces back to one immutable daily capture.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does it mean for a project to be "queued to connect" in Colorado?
A: It means a developer has filed an interconnection request with a grid operator covering Colorado, asking for a study and eventual physical connection to the transmission system. It does not mean the project has permits, financing, or a construction date — 78 such requests exist in the sealed snapshot.

Q: Does Colorado's 0.0% withdrawal figure mean nothing has ever dropped out of this queue?
A: Not necessarily. Some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely, so a 0.0% withdrawn figure can be a feed artifact rather than a genuine zero. Treat Colorado's figure as a gap in what the source publishes rather than a track record of durability.

Q: Why is Hybrid Colorado's largest fuel category when Solar leads nationally?
A: The sealed snapshot shows Hybrid at a 28.2% share of Colorado's 78 projects, while Solar carries the largest national share at 33.8%. The gap reflects what developers are actually filing state by state — Colorado has drawn more paired-technology hybrid filings relative to its own totals than the rest of the edition has.

Q: Is Colorado's queue split across more than one grid operator?
A: No. The sealed snapshot attributes all 78 of Colorado's projects to SPP, unlike some neighboring states in this edition whose projects split between two regional operators.

Q: What does the 500 MW largest project figure say about Colorado's queue?
A: It shows the queue's biggest single filing is sizable but not extreme — 500 MW against a 189 MW median describes a pipeline of mostly mid-size projects with one larger entry near the top, rather than one mega-project dominating the total.

Put Grid Data to Work

Colorado's queue data fits a narrow set of buyers with a real, recurring reason to watch it. Project developers siting the next hybrid, wind, or solar filing can use the 189 MW median and the 28.2% Hybrid share as a baseline for how this specific queue is already composed before filing. EPC contractors and equipment suppliers reading demand can watch the fuel mix — Hybrid's narrow lead over Wind — to decide where to route paired-technology interconnection-equipment sales effort.

Utilities and policy researchers tracking regional grid planning can use the fact that all 78 projects sit inside SPP to understand which single operator's study process governs this state's entire queue.

Each of these is a recurring monitoring job, not a one-time read: queue snapshots change as projects advance, withdraw, or move status, and the value is in catching the next change, not just this one. US Tech Automations automates that monitoring — watching feed changes across ISOs, routing the resulting signals, and drafting outreach off them — so a team does not have to re-pull and re-normalize six ISO feeds by hand every week. See the platform for agentic workflows built around exactly that kind of recurring data-monitoring task.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from the sealed daily interconnection-queue snapshot, July 9, 2026.