Kentucky Interconnection Queue: 62 Projects

62 projects. That is the entire headline count sitting in Kentucky's interconnection queue as of July 9, 2026, per the sealed snapshot, totaling 3,374 MW (3.4 GW). Every one of those 62 is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project — a large share of queue positions nationally end up withdrawn before construction, and Kentucky's own withdrawal share is one of the highest of any state in this edition.

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.

The rest of this report answers the questions that a 62-project, 3,374 MW headline immediately raises: what filled that queue, how much of it survives, and how does it compare to the states around it, including the full national queue index covering all 36 states and 6 ISOs in this edition.

Key Findings

• Kentucky's interconnection queue holds 62 projects totaling 3,374 MW, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot.

• 74.2% of Kentucky's queued projects have withdrawn, one of the highest withdrawal shares of any state in this edition.

• Solar accounts for 37 of Kentucky's 62 queued projects, a 59.7% share of the count.

• The largest single project queued in Kentucky carries 400 MW.

• MISO's queue accounts for all 62 of Kentucky's projects, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot — none of Kentucky's count falls under a second regional operator.

Kentucky Queue at a Glance, July 9, 2026

A 150 MW median against a 3,374 MW total describes one of the smaller state-level queues in this edition on a capacity basis. The 400 MW largest project — named in the sealed snapshot as AB Brown 345 - Reid EHV (BREC Terminal) 345.0kV — sits above that median but is not an outsized entry the way some states' single largest project can be.

Kentucky's 74.2% withdrawn share is the number to read before anything else in this report. Nearly three out of every four projects ever filed for this state have already dropped out, so the 62 remaining is a heavily filtered view of everything that has been proposed here.

74.2% of Kentucky's queued projects have withdrawn.

Kentucky's snapshot reports only withdrawn and still-in-queue statuses, with no operational or unknown-status rows in this edition — 46 withdrawn plus 16 in queue accounts for the full 62.

The Fuel Mix

Kentucky'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.

Why does Solar dominate Kentucky's queue?

Solar holds 37 of Kentucky's 62 projects and 2,632 MW, a 59.7% share of the count — well above the 33.8% Solar share that tops the full national edition. That concentration means most of what remains in Kentucky's post-withdrawal queue, and most of what has ever been filed here in the first place, is a solar proposal rather than any other technology. That runs opposite to South Dakota's queue, where Wind rather than Solar tops the count.

Solar carries a 59.7% share of Kentucky's 62 projects.

What about battery storage and hybrid filings?

Battery storage holds 13 projects and 400 MW, and Hybrid holds 8 projects and 142 MW. Both sit well behind Solar on both count and capacity, which is consistent with a queue where one technology has drawn the bulk of developer interest and the remaining categories fill in around it rather than competing for the lead. Wind, at 3 projects and 200 MW, trails even Hybrid on project count, though it edges past Hybrid's 142 MW on capacity — a reminder that project count and capacity do not always rank categories the same way.

Why does the single natural-gas project show 0 MW?

Kentucky's queue lists exactly 1 natural-gas project, and the sealed snapshot records its capacity as 0 MW. That is a genuine reading of the source feed, not an error introduced by this report — some ISO feeds carry incomplete capacity fields for individual projects, and this natural-gas listing is one of them. Treat the 0 MW figure as a gap in the underlying data rather than a claim that the project itself has no planned capacity.

A single project with an incomplete capacity field is exactly the kind of row a raw count can hide. Kentucky's Natural Gas category exists in the project count (1) even though its capacity figure (0 MW) tells you nothing about the project's actual size.

How Kentucky Compares

All 62 of Kentucky's projects sit inside MISO's footprint, a much larger system running 3,792 projects and 299.5 GW across its full territory, with a 56.4% withdrawn share and Solar as its own top fuel at a 46.4% share. MISO's own Solar lead runs in the same direction as Kentucky's, though Kentucky's 59.7% share climbs higher than the wider system it reports through.

Kentucky's 74.2% withdrawn share runs well above both its own MISO footprint (56.4%) and the full national edition (43.6%), making it one of the more heavily filtered state queues covered this edition. South Dakota's queue, also reporting through MISO for part of its count, shows a very different fuel lead — Wind rather than Solar — even though both states share the same regional operator relationship.

Against North Dakota's 109-project, 14.2 GW queue, Kentucky's 62-project, 3.4 GW total is smaller on both counts, underscoring how much scale varies even among states that report through the same six-ISO system this edition tracks.

Kentucky's 62-project queue runs smaller than North Dakota's 109.

Kentucky's full 62 projects sit inside MISO alone, while South Dakota attributes only 43 of its 55 projects and North Dakota only 83 of its 109 to that same operator — meaning Kentucky's queue is fully contained where its two MISO peers split across more than one regional grid operator. That variation is itself a finding: reporting through the same grid operator does not mean two states' queues behave the same way, and a buyer reading only the MISO-wide averages would miss how far Kentucky's own 74.2% withdrawn share sits from that system's 56.4%.

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; Kentucky's feed does retain them, which is why its 74.2% withdrawn share is visible at all.

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.

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: How many projects are in Kentucky's interconnection queue?
A: 62 projects, totaling 3,374 MW (3.4 GW), according to the sealed snapshot dated July 9, 2026.

Q: What does it mean for a project to be "queued to connect" in Kentucky?
A: It means a developer has filed an interconnection request with a grid operator covering Kentucky, 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.

Q: Does Kentucky's 74.2% withdrawal rate mean the state is a bad place to build?
A: Not necessarily — a high withdrawal share is common across interconnection queues nationally (43.6% across the full 12,260-project edition) and often reflects speculative filings or developers moving to a more advanced queue position rather than a verdict on the state's grid. Kentucky's 74.2% is nonetheless one of the higher shares in this edition and worth weighing before reading the remaining project count as representative of everything ever filed.

Q: Why is Solar Kentucky's largest fuel category?
A: The sealed snapshot shows Solar at a 59.7% share of Kentucky's 62 projects, above the 33.8% Solar share that tops the full national edition. This report measures what has been filed and grouped by keyword, not the underlying reasons developers chose solar.

Q: Is Kentucky's queue split across more than one grid operator?
A: No. The sealed snapshot attributes all 62 of Kentucky's projects to MISO, with none falling under a second regional operator.

Q: Why does one natural-gas project in Kentucky show 0 MW of capacity?
A: The sealed snapshot records that single project's capacity field as 0 MW. That reflects what the source ISO feed publishes for that project, not an estimate or a correction applied by this report.

Put Grid Data to Work

Kentucky's queue data fits a narrow set of buyers with a real, recurring reason to watch it. Project developers siting the next solar filing can use the 150 MW median and the 59.7% Solar share as a baseline for how concentrated this specific queue already is before filing. EPC contractors and equipment suppliers reading demand can watch the fuel mix — Solar's 37-project lead over every other category — to decide where to route panel, inverter, and interconnection-equipment sales effort.

Utilities and policy researchers tracking regional grid planning can use the 74.2% withdrawn share and the MISO-only attribution to understand how much of what gets filed in this state actually survives to a later queue stage. Analysts building a state-by-state watchlist can use Kentucky's 400 MW largest project and 150 MW median as fixed reference points for how this queue's size distribution looks today, distinct from the states it sits alongside in MISO.

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.