What Is Queued to Connect in Kansas?

What is queued to connect in Kansas? According to our sealed grid-queue snapshot from June 11, 2026, the answer is 171 projects representing 36.9 GW of proposed generation and storage capacity. An interconnection queue is the formal pipeline of connection requests that power developers file with a grid operator before they can hook a project to the transmission system. A queue position is a request to connect, NOT a built, approved, or financed project.

Kansas routes almost entirely through SPP — the Southwest Power Pool — and two features of SPP's data pipeline are essential to understand before reading Kansas's numbers. First, SPP does not include withdrawn projects in its published feed. The 0.0% withdrawal figure in this snapshot is a feed artifact, not a claim that no Kansas projects have ever withdrawn. Second, SPP publishes no status field for most entries, which means 64.9% of the 171 Kansas projects are marked as still-in-queue while 60 carry operational status — and no withdrawn count appears because SPP's feed simply omits those records.

This report covers 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. This is a census of the published queues, not of every project on every grid in the country.

Key Findings

• 171 Kansas interconnection queue projects total 36.9 GW (36,911 MW), according to our sealed snapshot.

• Wind leads the fuel mix at 39.8% with 68 Wind projects totaling 14,425 MW — the largest capacity block in Kansas's queue.

• 0.0% appear as withdrawn in this snapshot, but that is a SPP feed artifact: SPP drops withdrawn projects from its published data, so the true withdrawal history is not visible here.

• 64.9% of projects (111) are classified as still-in-queue, with 60 carrying operational status in SPP's data.

• The median project size is 200 MW, slightly above the national median of 150 MW.

• The largest recorded project reaches 910 MW, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot.

Kansas's Queue at a Glance

The 60 operational entries are an unusually high number for a single state in this edition. Nationally, only 290 of 10,618 projects carry operational status across 28 covered states. Kansas carrying 60 suggests SPP's data for Kansas captures a longer history of completed projects than most ISO feeds do for their state slices.

The Fuel Mix: Wind, Solar, Storage, and Dispatchables

Wind at 39.8% of projects and 14,425 MW of capacity is the defining feature of Kansas's interconnection queue. This is not surprising for a state with one of the country's strongest wind resources, but the concentration of Wind in the queue is worth stating plainly. It means the plurality of developer bets in Kansas's SPP footprint are on wind generation rather than the Solar-dominant pattern seen in most other covered states.

Below are the fuel types from the sealed display set, expanded with qualitative context.

Wind: 68 projects, 14,425 MW

Wind is the largest fuel bucket in both project count and capacity. Wind interconnection requests in Kansas typically involve large turbine arrays in the state's western plains, connecting to SPP's high-voltage transmission backbone. SPP is historically a wind-heavy grid, and Kansas has been a primary source of Wind capacity filings in the region for years. At 14,425 MW, the Wind capacity in Kansas's queue dwarfs any other fuel type in this state slice.

Solar: 44 projects, 9,378 MW

Solar is second with 44 projects and 9,378 MW. That is a meaningful Solar pipeline — Kansas's flat topography and strong irradiance make it viable for large-scale PV. The 9,378 MW figure indicates Solar has become a major second track alongside Wind in Kansas's queue, even though Solar does not hold the plurality position here the way it does in most other covered states.

Battery Storage: 31 projects, 5,664 MW

Battery Storage accounts for 31 projects and 5,664 MW. Standalone battery interconnection filings in SPP have grown as developers seek to provide dispatchable capacity and grid services alongside the intermittent generation that dominates the region. The 5,664 MW figure suggests substantial storage interest even before accounting for storage co-located with Solar or Wind in the Hybrid bucket.

Natural Gas: 13 projects, 4,191 MW

Natural Gas contributes 13 projects and 4,191 MW. These are likely combined-cycle, simple-cycle peaker, or combustion turbine projects seeking firm capacity positions on SPP's grid. The per-project average for Natural Gas entries in Kansas is high, consistent with the larger-scale dispatchable plant configurations that typically pursue interconnection.

Hybrid: 10 projects, 2,780 MW

Hybrid projects — typically co-located generation and storage — account for 10 entries and 2,780 MW. Our methodology labels a project as Hybrid when the ISO-reported technology label contains indicators of multiple fuel types. In SPP's Kansas territory, these are most commonly Solar plus storage combinations.

Remaining Fuel Types

The single Nuclear entry (42 MW) and single Hydro entry (5 MW) represent the tail of the Kansas fuel mix. The nuclear entry at 42 MW likely reflects a small modular reactor or research reactor filing rather than a conventional large-scale plant.

How Kansas Compares to Peers

Kansas sits in SPP's territory, alongside Nebraska and Oklahoma in the covered states. The table below draws from the sealed display set for a cross-state comparison.

Kansas holds 36.9 GW in 171 projects — a high per-project MW average driven by large-scale Wind and Natural Gas entries.

Wind alone accounts for 14,425 MW across 68 projects — the largest capacity block in the Kansas queue. That concentration is the single clearest signal in the state's queue and sets it apart from the Solar-led pattern in most covered states.

For the full cross-state picture, the national index is at US Interconnection Queue Index — June 2026.

Oklahoma leads the SPP-state peer group at 57.7 GW across 306 projects, a substantially larger pipeline reflecting Oklahoma's even stronger wind resource and longer history of Wind development. Kansas at 36.9 GW is a clear second in this SPP tier. Nebraska trails at 20.5 GW.

For the full SPP footprint see the SPP interconnection queue report, and for a technology view of the dominant fuel see the Wind interconnection queue report.

Methodology

Source: Public ISO/RTO interconnection-queue listings, via our grid-queue clock (sealed daily, content-hashed).

Honesty statement: All figures are computed directly from our sealed daily grid-queue snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. Fuel and status labels are grouped from each ISO's own categories, and the grouping rules appear in the display set.

Scope: 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 US Tech Automations' sealed daily grid snapshots. This is a census of the published queues, not of every project on every grid in the country.

The grid disclaimer: A queue position is a request to connect, NOT a built, approved, or financed project. Nothing in this report implies that queued capacity will be built or is coming online.

SPP-specific note on withdrawn projects: SPP drops withdrawn projects from its published queue feed entirely. The 0.0% withdrawal figure for Kansas is therefore a feed artifact — it does not mean no projects have withdrawn. It means SPP's data does not include them.

Fuel bucketing: Vendor fuel and technology labels differ by ISO and are grouped into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid and Other by keyword.

Status bucketing: 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.

How the clock works:

1. Collect. The research desk pulls each ISO's machine-readable queue listing daily.

2. Normalize. Records are parsed, fuel and status labels bucketed by keyword, and state attribution assigned by ISO-reported point of interconnection.

3. Seal. Each snapshot is content-hashed (SHA) into an append-only ledger. This snapshot carries hash prefix 4938600b6a99772e, sealed June 11, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why does Kansas show 0.0% withdrawn when most states show meaningful withdrawal rates?
A: SPP does not include withdrawn projects in its publicly published queue feed. A 0.0% figure here is a data characteristic of SPP's reporting, not a claim that no Kansas projects have withdrawn. To see withdrawal history for SPP-territory projects, you would need to consult historical queue archives that SPP does not publish in its current machine-readable format.

Q: What does it mean that 60 projects are marked operational?
A: SPP's data marks 60 Kansas entries as in-service or in commercial operation. That is an unusually high operational count for a single state in this edition and suggests SPP's Kansas data captures projects across a longer historical window than most ISO feeds, including plants that have already completed the interconnection process.

Q: Wind leads at 39.8% of projects in Kansas — does that reflect Kansas grid conditions?
A: The 39.8% Wind share is the single largest fuel bucket by project count in Kansas, which is consistent with Kansas being historically one of the U.S. leading Wind energy states. The capacity number — 14,425 MW — reinforces that developers have concentrated large-scale Wind bets in this state.

Q: How does a developer actually use an interconnection queue snapshot like this?
A: Developers use queue data to understand saturation: if a given substation or transmission corridor already has many large projects queued, the interconnection upgrade costs and study timelines for new entries increase. Tracking which projects remain in-queue versus which withdraw helps teams calibrate their siting decisions without waiting for formal study completion.

Automating SPP and Grid Queue Monitoring

Energy market professionals who follow Kansas's SPP queue today often rely on periodic manual downloads from SPP's portal, followed by reformatting and reconciliation against previous snapshots. That workflow is slow and fragile — SPP can change file formats without notice, and manual processes miss mid-cycle additions.

US Tech Automations builds automation workflows that ingest SPP and MISO queue feeds on a defined schedule, normalize records into a consistent schema, detect additions and status changes, and push alerts to the teams that need them. Whether you are a Wind project developer tracking available capacity corridors in western Kansas, an equipment supplier estimating near-term demand, or a policy researcher maintaining a state dashboard, the automation approach is the same: pull, normalize, diff, alert.

Explore the platform at /platform/agentic-workflows, and see the Wind interconnection queue report for a national picture of the technology that leads Kansas's pipeline.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from the sealed daily interconnection-queue snapshot, June 11, 2026.