What Is Queued to Connect in Louisiana?

What is queued to connect in Louisiana? The short answer from our sealed snapshot of June 11, 2026: 392 generation and storage projects, totaling 23.7 GW of requested capacity — but two of every three are already gone. Of those 392 requests, 266 are marked withdrawn, a 67.9% withdrawal rate, the highest of any state in this batch.

So the fuller answer is that 23.7 GW has been requested in Louisiana, while most of it has already been abandoned. The caveat is the whole point: a queue position is a request to connect to the grid, not a built, approved, or financed plant. This is a cross-sectional census of one snapshot day; it counts what was published, not what will be built.

Where Louisiana Sits Among Its Peers

Before drilling into Louisiana alone, it helps to see it against the system it belongs to. The comparison below sets the state next to its parent operator and the national total — that framing answers "what is queued here" better than the raw count does.

Read qualitatively, Louisiana is a modest slice of MISO's 299.6 GW and a small fraction of the national 1600.7 GW — not a top-tier queue by volume. But its 58.2% solar share runs hotter than both MISO's 46.4% and the national 39.0%, so what is queued here skews more heavily toward solar than the system average. A state's queue can span more than one operator, but Louisiana's requests sit predominantly with MISO, which holds 382 of them.

Louisiana's 67.9% withdrawal rate is the highest in this batch — the queue that has shed the largest share of what was ever filed.

The national frame matters because it sets the bar for "normal." The full picture across all covered queues — 10,618 projects and 1600.7 GW — is laid out in the US interconnection queue index, and against it Louisiana is neither a volume leader nor an outlier on capacity. Where Louisiana stands apart is attrition: its 67.9% withdrawn tops every other state covered here. That is not a sign of a failing grid; it is a sign that this particular queue has been filtering developer intent hard, leaving 123 active requests against the 266 that have already left.

So, What Is Actually Queued?

The direct answer, in the snapshot's own figures:

• 392 projects are queued in Louisiana at 23.7 GW, according to the sealed snapshot.

• 266 of them are already withdrawn — a 67.9% withdrawal rate.

• 123 projects remain active, a 31.4% in-queue share.

• Solar is 58.2% of the queue, the dominant fuel by count and capacity.

• The largest single request is 1,350 MW, per the sealed snapshot.

67.9% of every project that ever entered Louisiana's snapshot is now withdrawn — the highest abandonment rate in this batch. What is "queued" is mostly what has already been dropped.

That 67.9% is the answer to a question most readers do not think to ask: of everything filed, how much survives? When a developer files an interconnection request, it stakes an early claim — often before land, financing, or offtake are locked. As study costs and network-upgrade estimates arrive, many of those claims collapse. Louisiana's screening is the most aggressive in this batch, so 23.7 GW requested is best read as a pipeline of intent, not incoming supply.

Louisiana at a Glance

The table pulls the state's headline figures directly from the sealed snapshot. Capacity appears in both megawatts and gigawatts as published; status is split into the buckets our methodology defines.

The 150 MW median, against a top request of 1,350 MW, says the queue is built from a broad base of mid-sized utility projects with a thin tail of larger ones. The small operational count of 3 confirms the queue is overwhelmingly forward-looking intent rather than already-energized capacity. Note that the snapshot publishes the largest request by capacity (1,350 MW) without a project name for Louisiana, so we report the size and leave the name as the feed does — blank.

The Fuel Mix Behind the Queue

Louisiana's queue is solar-led, and the breakdown below — straight from the snapshot's keyword-grouped categories — shows how concentrated that is.

Solar makes up 58.2% of the Louisiana queue, the dominant share by a wide margin. Read qualitatively, that points to where developers see the cleanest path: available land, falling module costs, and supportive economics. The 75 battery-storage and 56 hybrid requests are the second story — storage chasing or pairing with solar to firm intermittent output.

Natural gas shows 19 projects at 2,750 MW, a denser capacity-per-project profile typical of combined-cycle reliability plants, while nuclear and hydro are vestigial at one project each.

The capacity-per-project contrast inside the table is instructive. Solar spreads 15,842 MW across 228 filings, the broad-base profile of utility-scale arrays. Battery storage, with 75 requests but only 1,295 MW, is a fleet of smaller, fast-deploying units. Wind is barely present at 8 projects and 779 MW, a reminder that the Gulf-state queue leans solar and gas rather than wind.

For a reader sizing where Louisiana's next connection activity concentrates, the signal is clear: solar dominates on count and capacity, storage and hybrid form the rising middle, and gas is the dense-but-rare reliability play. Set the fuel split against the status split and it sharpens. Of the 392 filings, only 123 remain active and 266 are withdrawn; the solar-heavy mix describes what developers filed, not what survives. The 58.2% solar share and the 67.9% withdrawal rate read best together — developers file solar, and the queue sheds those filings before they energize.

Methodology and the Grid Disclaimer

This report draws on public ISO/RTO interconnection-queue listings, via the grid-queue clock (sealed daily, content-hashed). The 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.

All figures 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, and the grouping rules appear in the display set. Vendor fuel and technology labels differ by ISO and are grouped into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid and Other by keyword. Each ISO publishes its own status taxonomy; statuses are grouped into withdrawn, operational, still-in-queue, and unknown for feeds that publish no status. Some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely.

The grid disclaimer, restated: a queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. Nothing here is a forecast of capacity that will come online. Louisiana's own 67.9% withdrawal rate is the clearest in-snapshot evidence of how aspirational these lists are.

How we build the snapshot:

1. Collect. We pull each covered ISO's published interconnection-queue feed on its own schedule.

2. Normalize. Differing vendor fuel and status labels are mapped onto common buckets.

3. Seal. The day's normalized records are content-hashed and stored append-only, so the snapshot is reproducible.

4. Aggregate. We compute counts, capacity totals, medians, and status splits across the sealed records for the snapshot date.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is queued to connect in Louisiana?
A: 392 generation and storage projects, totaling 23.7 GW of requested capacity, per the sealed snapshot of June 11, 2026 — though 266 of them, 67.9%, are already withdrawn.

Q: Does that 23.7 GW mean 23.7 GW is coming online?
A: No. A queue position is a request to connect, not a built plant. With a 67.9% withdrawal rate, most of Louisiana's requested capacity will never energize.

Q: What kind of projects dominate the Louisiana queue?
A: Solar, at 58.2% of the queue — 228 of the 392 requests, totaling 15,842 MW. Battery storage and hybrid configurations are the next-largest technologies.

Q: Which grid operator handles Louisiana's queue?
A: MISO is the dominant operator, holding 382 of the state's requests. A state's queue can span more than one operator, but MISO is the home of this slice.

Q: Why is Louisiana's withdrawal rate the highest in this batch?
A: It reflects aggressive filtering. Developers file early, before land and financing are secured; as study costs arrive, many requests drop. MISO publishes withdrawn records, so Louisiana's 67.9% is fully visible rather than hidden by the feed.

Put Grid Data to Work

A sealed, daily queue snapshot is an early-demand signal, and each audience reads Louisiana's 392 projects differently.

Project developers siting the next request can read the 58.2%-solar mix and 150 MW median to gauge where the queue is crowded and where a differentiated filing might clear faster. EPC contractors and equipment suppliers can treat the 75 battery-storage and 56 hybrid requests as a forward order-book signal, timing inventory and crews to the technologies developers are actually filing. Utilities and policy researchers can track the 67.9% withdrawal rate as a measure of how much of the 23.7 GW is real intent versus speculative placeholders.

US Tech Automations builds the automation layer on top of that signal: watching the published feeds for changes, routing new or withdrawn filings to the right internal team, and drafting the first-pass outreach when a relevant project appears or moves. See the operator view in the MISO interconnection queue report and the technology lens in the solar interconnection queue report. You can explore the underlying sealed records at permits.ustechautomations.com, and see how we automate signal monitoring on the agentic workflows platform.

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