27.0 GW of Power Is Queued in Nevada

27.0 GW of power is queued to connect in Nevada, per the sealed grid-queue snapshot dated July 9, 2026 — one state's slice of the 1945.7 GW sitting across the full 12,260-project, 6-ISO national edition. That 27.0 GW (26,986 MW) is spread across 104 individual projects, a request-to-connect count, not a count of anything built, approved, or financed.

This is a census of the published queues that US Tech Automations' grid-queue clock captures daily — 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 — not of every project on every grid in the country.

Nevada's slice is Solar-dominant and withdrawal-heavy at once: more than half its capacity by fuel share is Solar, and nearly three-quarters of its projects have already withdrawn, a combination that says a great deal about how competitive and how speculative this particular queue has become.

Nevada's sealed snapshot counts 104 queued projects totaling 26,986 MW.

Key Findings

• 27.0 GW (26,986 MW) is queued to connect in Nevada across 104 projects, according to the sealed snapshot.

• Solar leads Nevada's fuel mix at a 51.0% share, more than double Wind's 25-project count.

• 71.2% of Nevada's 104 queued projects have withdrawn, well above the 43.6% withdrawal share across the full national edition.

• Nevada's largest queued project, SEARCHLIGHT 1, carries 1,500 MW, against a 225 MW state median.

• All 104 of Nevada's projects report through CAISO, whose full footprint runs a steeper 77.0% withdrawal rate across 2,278 projects.

Two things stand out before the numbers get broken into tables. First, Nevada's 27.0 GW figure is not a small slice of the 1945.7 GW national total, yet it is delivered by only 104 projects — fewer than half the project count of a state like Colorado, which runs 78 projects on 14.0 GW. Nevada's queue is built on bigger average listings, and the 225 MW median confirms that: this is not a state fielding hundreds of small rooftop-scale filings, it is a queue of mid-to-large utility-scale proposals.

Second, the 71.2% withdrawal share is the number that should temper any read of the 27.0 GW headline. Nevada's own withdrawal rate sits below the 77.0% posted by CAISO overall, the single grid operator handling all 104 of Nevada's projects, but still runs far above the 43.6% national average — meaning most of what has ever been proposed for Nevada's grid through CAISO has already been pulled, and the 27.0 GW figure reported today is best read as a snapshot of current filings, not a forecast of what will eventually be built.

Nevada Queue at a Glance, July 9, 2026

Nevada's 71.2% withdrawal share means roughly seven of every ten projects that have ever entered this queue are already gone — the 28.8% still in queue is the more honest number to watch if the question is what might actually connect next.

The Fuel Mix

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

Solar's 53 projects and 11,665 MW put it well ahead of every other category on both counts, consistent with its 51.0% share of the state's queue. Battery Storage, at 21 projects and 7,289 MW, outranks Wind's 25 projects on capacity despite fewer listings — a sign that Nevada's storage proposals skew larger individually than its wind proposals. Natural Gas holds the smallest project count, 5, but still carries 3,084 MW, more than Wind's 25-project total falls short of on a per-project basis.

How Nevada Compares

Nevada's queue sits inside CAISO alongside Arizona's 72-project, 33.0 GW slice — both states report through the same operator, whose full footprint runs 2,278 projects, 492.2 GW, and a 128 MW median. CAISO's own top fuel is also Solar, at a 46.1% share, meaning Nevada's 51.0% Solar share runs slightly ahead of its parent ISO's already Solar-heavy average.

Withdrawal behavior is where Nevada's queue separates itself from its neighbors in this edition. NYISO, the only other single-ISO queue detailed at this depth in this edition, posts an 88.3% withdrawal rate — higher than both CAISO's 77.0% and Nevada's own 71.2% — which puts Nevada's withdrawal share in the middle of the pack among the edition's most withdrawal-heavy queues rather than at either extreme. Against the national queue index, Nevada's Solar-led, high-withdrawal profile matches the broader pattern in the 33.8% Solar-led, 43.6%-withdrawn national dataset, only more pronounced on both counts.

CAISO's own largest single listing across its full footprint is ATLAS COMPLEX at 3,200 MW — the same project that tops the entire national edition — while Nevada's own largest, SEARCHLIGHT 1, carries 1,500 MW. That gap says Nevada is not where CAISO's single biggest project sits, even though Nevada's 27.0 GW total makes up a real share of CAISO's 492.2 GW footprint.

Colorado's 78-project, 14.0 GW queue runs through SPP rather than CAISO, and its Hybrid-led fuel mix is a useful contrast to both Nevada's and Arizona's Solar-led composition — a reminder that "top fuel" tracks the grid operator's territory as much as it tracks any single state's resources.

All 104 of Nevada's queued projects report through CAISO.

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, 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 (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.

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. Nothing in this report should be read as a forecast of what will be built or when.

Nevada's 71.2% withdrawal share and 51.0% Solar share describe the same 104 projects from two different angles — what technology developers are proposing, and how much of any technology's proposals actually survive.

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 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.

71.2% of Nevada's 104 queued projects have already withdrawn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does it mean for 27.0 GW to be "queued" in Nevada?
A: It means 104 projects have filed interconnection requests with CAISO for a point of connection in Nevada, totaling 26,986 MW of proposed capacity. Filing a request is not the same as securing permits or financing — it is the first step in a study process, and 71.2% of Nevada's own historical filings have already withdrawn.

Q: Why is Solar the dominant fuel in Nevada's queue?
A: The sealed snapshot shows Solar at a 51.0% share of Nevada's 104 projects, ahead of Wind's 25 projects and Battery Storage's 21. Nevada's Solar share also runs ahead of CAISO's own 46.1% Solar share, meaning the state's mix leans even more toward Solar than its parent grid operator's average.

Q: What is Nevada's largest queued project?
A: SEARCHLIGHT 1, at 1,500 MW, against a 225 MW median project size for the state — a single listing well above what a typical Nevada filing looks like.

Q: Does Nevada's high withdrawal rate mean the state's grid is unattractive to developers?
A: Not on its own — CAISO's full footprint runs an even higher 77.0% withdrawal rate, so Nevada's 71.2% sits below its own regional grid operator's average even though it is well above the 43.6% national figure. High withdrawal shares are common in CAISO-connected queues generally.

Q: Does Nevada's queue span more than one grid operator?
A: No — the sealed snapshot attributes all 104 of Nevada's projects to CAISO, the single regional grid operator covering the state's queue in this edition.

Q: How does Nevada's 30-project still-in-queue count fit into the bigger picture?
A: Those 30 projects are the share of Nevada's 104-project queue that has neither withdrawn nor been confirmed operational as of the sealed snapshot — the closest this report can get to a live, unresolved pipeline for the state, out of the 28.8% still-in-queue share reported above.

Put Grid Data to Work

Nevada's queue data serves a specific set of recurring questions. Solar and battery-storage developers can use the 51.0% Solar share and the 7,289 MW Battery Storage total as a baseline for how crowded this particular technology mix already is in the state before filing a new request.

EPC contractors and equipment suppliers can watch the 74-of-104 withdrawal count as a signal of how much of the historical pipeline will never convert into equipment orders. Utilities and grid planners tracking CAISO capacity can use the 28.8% still-in-queue share to estimate how much of Nevada's proposed 27.0 GW remains a live, unresolved filing.

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. The platform 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.