44.7 GW of Power Is Queued in Michigan

Michigan has 44.7 GW of proposed power queued to connect, spread across 502 projects, as of the sealed snapshot on June 11, 2026. To size that: the national queue across every covered grid operator totals 1600.7 GW. Michigan is one meaningful slice of a very large national picture, not a forecast of what the state will build.

A queue position is a request to connect to the grid, not a built, approved, or financed project. Across the country a large share of queued projects withdraw before construction, and Michigan is no exception. This report is a cross-sectional snapshot of one sealed day — no trends, no projections.

Michigan holds 44.7 GW across 502 queued projects, part of a 1600.7 GW national queue.

The Analyst's Read on Michigan

Start with the shape of the data. Michigan's queue is mid-sized, solar-led, and notable for a withdrawn share that sits almost exactly at the midpoint — a useful contrast to the extremes seen in California and Texas.

The withdrawn share is 47.4% — 238 projects out — with 264 still in queue. That near-even split is, in a sense, the most honest status read in this edition: Michigan's grid operator publishes a real withdrawn field, so the number reflects actual attrition rather than a feed convention. The median project is 150 MW, and the largest entry is BLACKFOOT - MADRID 345.0kV at 1,452 MW, a high-voltage transmission-tied filing.

47.4% of Michigan's 502 queued projects carry a withdrawn status: 238 out, 264 still in queue.

The 47.4% withdrawn rate matters because it is the working assumption an analyst should carry into any read of the 502 count: roughly half of what is filed here is already gone. The live signal is the 264 still-in-queue projects.

There is a useful discipline in that reframing. A naive read of Michigan would take 502 projects and 44.7 GW as the pipeline. The disciplined read halves it on sight: 264 projects still in the queue, with the 44.7 GW gross capacity standing only as a ceiling on ambition.

Neither figure is a forecast — a queue position is a request to connect, not a built or financed project — but the 264 count is at least a measure of what has survived the first cull. For Michigan, where the operator publishes honest status, that distinction is available and worth using. Many states in this edition cannot offer it.

The 150 MW median rounds out the analyst's picture. It places Michigan between the small-project New England queues and the large-project Texas queue — a Midwestern middle, where utility-scale solar farms and mid-sized storage set the typical filing. The 1,452 MW BLACKFOOT - MADRID entry is the outlier that proves the rule: one big transmission-tied project against a field of more uniform mid-scale plants.

The Fuel Mix

Michigan's queue is a clean-energy transition story, led decisively by solar. Fuel labels are our keyword bucketing of differing vendor categories.

Solar dominates with 247 projects, a 49.2% share, and 20,209 MW — nearly half the queue by both count and capacity. Battery Storage follows at 123 projects and 9,297 MW, the firming layer behind the solar build. Wind contributes 82 projects, and natural gas, though only 23 projects, carries a dense 7,019 MW. The mix reads as a Midwestern grid pivoting hard toward solar with storage close behind.

The hybrid bucket is the detail worth flagging: 24 hybrid filings at 2,099 MW, meaning paired generation-and-storage projects that arrive as a single interconnection request. Combined with the 123 standalone batteries, Michigan's queue carries a meaningful storage commitment alongside its solar wave. The tiny Other and nuclear buckets — 2 projects at 9 MW and a single nuclear filing at 0 MW — confirm there is almost nothing speculative or miscellaneous in this queue. It is a focused, four-technology pile: solar, storage, wind, and a slug of dense natural gas.

What the fuel mix does not tell you, on its own, is how much of it is real. Apply the 47.4% withdrawn rate from the section above and roughly half of every fuel row is already gone. The distribution describes what Michigan developers want to build; the status field describes how much of that intent has survived first contact with interconnection economics.

How Michigan Compares

Place Michigan against the other states and the national aggregate from the same sealed day. This is a qualitative position, not a computed ranking.

Against the national total of 10,618 projects and 1600.7 GW, Michigan's 502 projects and 44.7 GW are a modest but real share — the full breakdown of that national pile is in the US interconnection queue index. It sits well below the California and Texas heavyweights and runs close to neighboring Illinois at 482 projects.

Michigan's queue flows through MISO, the regional grid operator, whose statewide withdrawn rate of 56.2% in our snapshot is even higher than Michigan's own 47.4% — a reminder that attrition across the broader MISO footprint runs high. The operator-level detail sits in the MISO interconnection queue report.

That MISO comparison is worth pausing on. Michigan's 47.4% withdrawn rate is high by any normal standard, yet it is lower than the 56.2% across the full MISO territory — which means Michigan projects, by this snapshot, actually survive somewhat better than the regional average.

For a developer choosing where in the Midwest to file, that is a real signal: the same interconnection process produces materially different attrition depending on where in MISO you sit. It is also a clean contrast with the feed-artifact states elsewhere in this edition. Because MISO publishes honest status, both the 47.4% and the 56.2% are believable attrition figures rather than missing-data zeros, and that believability is exactly what makes them worth acting on.

Methodology

Source: Public ISO/RTO interconnection-queue listings, via the US Tech Automations grid-queue clock (sealed daily, content-hashed). The scope is 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.

Vendor fuel and technology labels differ by ISO and are grouped into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid and Other by keyword. Status taxonomies differ; we group them into withdrawn, operational, still-in-queue, and unknown for feeds that publish no status. Michigan runs through MISO, which publishes a real withdrawn field — so its 47.4% rate reflects actual attrition rather than a feed artifact. Note that a state's projects can span more than one ISO; for Michigan in this snapshot the queue sits within MISO.

Reminder on the disclaimer: a queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. We make no forecast that any queued capacity will be delivered.

How the clock seals each snapshot:

1. Collect each ISO feed. Across this edition, 5 ISOs spanning 28 states.

2. Normalize labels. Map each vendor's fuel and status fields onto shared buckets.

3. Bucket status and fuel. Sort every project into the standard categories.

4. Seal the snapshot. Hash the normalized day and append it to the immutable ledger.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How does Michigan's queue size compare nationally?
A: Michigan holds 44.7 GW across 502 projects against a national queue of 1600.7 GW and 10,618 projects. It is a meaningful but modest slice, well behind California and Texas.

Q: Is Michigan's 47.4% withdrawal rate trustworthy?
A: More than most. MISO publishes a real withdrawn field, so the 238 withdrawn of 502 reflects actual attrition rather than a feed convention. Roughly half of filings are already out.

Q: Does a Michigan queue position mean the project is approved?
A: No. A queue position is a request to connect, not a built or financed project. Only 264 of the 502 filings remain in queue at all.

Q: What is driving Michigan's queue?
A: Solar, decisively — 247 projects, a 49.2% share, and 20,209 MW. Battery Storage follows at 123 projects, the firming layer behind the solar growth.

Q: Why cite MISO when this is a Michigan report?
A: Because Michigan's queue runs through MISO. The regional operator's 56.2% statewide withdrawn rate gives extra context for Michigan's own 47.4%.

Put Grid Data to Work

Michigan's queue serves several desks. Solar developers can read the 247-project, 20,209 MW solar slice to gauge how saturated the segment already is before filing a new request.

Storage and hybrid teams can track the 123 battery and 24 hybrid filings as the firming opportunity beside that solar wave, since a solar-heavy queue like Michigan's tends to pull storage demand along right behind it.

Utility and policy analysts should anchor on the 264 still-in-queue count, not the gross 502, given the 47.4% that have already withdrawn. Michigan is one of the few states in this edition where that live-versus-withdrawn split can be drawn confidently, because the operator reports real status rather than dropping or omitting it the way several feed-artifact states do.

US Tech Automations automates this monitoring: tracking the 502 filings for status changes, flagging when a project crosses from in-queue to withdrawn, and routing live ones to the right analyst. Teams can build that in through our agentic workflows platform, with the sealed snapshots at https://permits.ustechautomations.com.

For the technology-level view of where Michigan's 123 battery filings sit nationally, see the battery storage interconnection queue.

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