309.5 GW of Power Is Queued in New York

New York's slice of the U.S. interconnection queue held 1,534 generation and storage projects requesting 309,489 MW — 309.5 GW — as of July 9, 2026, against a 1945.7 GW national total. This is a census of generation and storage projects sitting in the queues of U.S. grid operators that publish a machine-readable queue, captured by US Tech Automations' sealed daily grid snapshots — not every project on every grid in the country.

A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project, and New York's own numbers make that caution concrete: the vast majority of its projects are already gone.

New York's queue totals 309.5 GW across 1,534 generation and storage projects.

A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. In New York, 87.0% of the state's 1,534 projects — 1,335 of them — are already marked withdrawn, well above the 43.6% withdrawn nationwide.

Key Findings

• New York holds 309.5 GW across 1,534 projects — a state slice of the 1945.7 GW logged nationwide in the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot.

• 87.0% of New York's projects (1,335) carry a withdrawn status, against a 43.6% withdrawn share for the full national queue.

• The largest position, Blue Sky Interconnect 2, requests 2,620 MW — the single biggest project sitting in New York's queue.

• New York's fuel mix concentrates 97.2% of capacity share in the Other bucket (1,491 projects, 287,375 MW), not Solar, the leading fuel nationwide at a 33.8% share.

• Only 5 solar projects and 6 battery-storage projects appear in New York's queue, against 32 natural-gas projects and a national queue where Solar and Battery Storage rank first and second by project count.

• 186 New York projects remain still-in-queue (12.1%), and 13 (0.8%) carry no published status at all.

Where New York Sits Among the Queues

New York's numbers make more sense next to its peers. Among the states in this edition's sealed snapshot, New York's 309.5 GW ranks behind only California and Texas, but its top fuel label breaks from the pattern every other large state shows:

California and Massachusetts lead with Solar, Texas leads with Battery Storage — New York is the outlier, with Other topping its mix by a wide margin. New York's dominant grid operator is NYISO, and it is worth sizing that operator against its counterparts, since the withdrawal rate varies enormously by ISO:

NYISO's 88.3% withdrawn share sits at the top of this list, ahead even of CAISO's 77.0%. The 0.0% rows for ERCOT, ISO-NE, and SPP are not evidence those queues run clean — some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely, so a 0.0% figure is a feed artifact, not a claim that nothing has withdrawn there. Read plainly, New York and its dominant operator both sit at the high end of queue churn among covered grids.

Note also that NYISO's own project count (1,641) is larger than the New York state count (1,534) used throughout this report — an ISO's territory and a state's borders are not the same thing, and a project can be attributed to a state distinct from the ISO that lists it. New York projects overwhelmingly point back to a single operator: the state's own topPeer figure shows 1,521 of its 1,534 projects tied to NYISO.

That gap between 1,641 and 1,521 is worth sitting with for a moment: it says a handful of NYISO's positions sit outside New York's own state tally, a reminder that "New York's queue" and "NYISO's queue" are related but not perfectly overlapping datasets. A reader who wants the operator's full picture should treat this state report as the New York-attributed subset of that larger NYISO count.

Median project size tells a second story about crowding. NYISO's 94 MW median sits well below CAISO's 128 MW, ERCOT's 201 MW, and MISO's 150 MW — only ISO-NE's 26 MW median runs smaller. A lower median alongside a high project count points toward a queue with many modest-sized requests rather than a handful of large ones, which is a different competitive environment for a developer than a queue like ERCOT's, where the median project runs more than double NYISO's size.

New York Queue at a Glance

A queue is a request to connect, not a construction schedule. New York's median project size of 82 MW sits below the 148 MW national median, meaning the queue leans toward a larger number of smaller positions rather than a few giant ones — even though its single largest entry, Blue Sky Interconnect 2, requests 2,620 MW on its own.

The status split matters as much as the capacity total here: with 87.0% of projects withdrawn and only 12.1% still active, the 309.5 GW headline number describes what has been requested historically far more than what remains realistically in motion today.

The Fuel Mix Behind New York's Queue

Vendor fuel and technology labels differ by ISO and are grouped into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid and Other by keyword — a bucketing choice made by the sealed grid-queue clock, not a category New York's operator itself publishes.

Solar counts just 5 projects and 100 MW in New York's queue.

New York's fuel-mix buckets are keyword groupings applied to each ISO's own vendor labels, not a category New York's grid operator itself reports. A 97.2% share landing in Other means most of this queue's project labels did not map cleanly to Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, or Hybrid.

This is the single most distinctive fact in New York's slice of the queue. Nationally, Solar leads with a 33.8% share and Battery Storage and Wind both post meaningful project counts. In New York, those categories nearly disappear — 5 solar projects, 6 battery-storage projects — while 1,491 of the state's 1,534 projects land in Other.

For anyone reading this queue as a signal of what New York's grid operator is being asked to interconnect, the practical read is that the bulk of New York's queue is not cleanly describable by the standard fuel/technology keyword set the clock applies elsewhere. A reader should not assume New York mirrors the Solar-heavy pattern seen in California, Massachusetts, or Michigan.

Methodology

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. Public ISO/RTO interconnection-queue listings, sealed daily and content-hashed, are the sole source for every number in this report.

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 — this is why a 0.0% withdrawn figure elsewhere in this report is a feed artifact, not a claim that nothing withdrew. A queue position remains, at every stage short of operational, a request to connect rather than a built or approved project.

1. Collect. Pull each covered ISO/RTO's public interconnection-queue feed on a daily cycle.

2. Normalize. Standardize project names, capacity figures, fuel labels, and status codes into one schema.

3. Bucket. Group vendor fuel/technology labels into Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid, and Other by keyword, and group each ISO's own status language into withdrawn, operational, still-in-queue, and unknown.

4. Seal. Content-hash the daily snapshot so every figure in this report traces back to one immutable file.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does 309.5 GW in New York's queue actually represent?
A: It is the sum of requested capacity — 309,489 MW — across 1,534 generation and storage projects whose point of interconnection is in New York, as of the July 9, 2026 sealed snapshot. It is a request total, not built or approved capacity.

Q: Does a queue position mean a project will get built?
A: No. A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. In New York, 87.0% of projects (1,335) are already marked withdrawn, which is the strongest evidence in this dataset that queued capacity should not be read as future generation.

Q: Why is Other the top fuel category in New York instead of Solar?
A: Other holds a 97.2% capacity share in New York (1,491 projects, 287,375 MW), while Solar accounts for just 5 projects and 100 MW. Fuel buckets are keyword groupings of each ISO's own vendor labels; a large Other share means most of New York's queue entries did not map cleanly to the standard categories.

Q: Why does NYISO list more projects than New York state?
A: NYISO's own count is 1,641 projects, compared to 1,534 attributed to New York state. An ISO's operating territory and a state's borders are not identical, and a project's grid operator is not always the same as the state where its point of interconnection sits.

Q: What does unknown status mean for the 13 projects in New York's queue?
A: Those 13 projects (0.8%) come from a feed that publishes no status at all for them. Unknown does not mean active — it means the source data does not say, and no status should be assumed.

Q: Who actually uses interconnection-queue data like this?
A: Project developers sizing where to file next, EPC contractors and equipment suppliers reading demand by fuel type, and utilities or policy researchers tracking how crowded a given operator's queue has become all pull from feeds like this one.

New York's queue holds 1,335 withdrawn projects out of 1,534 total.

Put Grid Data to Work

Three groups act on a queue slice like New York's. Project developers use the withdrawal rate and median project size to gauge how crowded and how competitive a given point of interconnection has become before filing a new request. EPC contractors and equipment suppliers read the fuel mix — in New York's case, an unusually Other-heavy mix — to see where demand for their category of hardware is and is not concentrated. Utilities and policy researchers use the status split (withdrawn, still-in-queue, operational, unknown) to separate real near-term activity from queue backlog.

The same sealed-snapshot discipline that grounds this state report also grounds the national interconnection-queue index and sibling reports such as the Colorado interconnection queue. US Tech Automations automates the recurring version of this work — watching ISO feeds for status and fuel changes, routing the resulting signal, and drafting first-touch outreach — so a team does not have to re-pull and re-normalize six ISO feeds by hand every week. See how that monitoring runs on the platform.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from the sealed daily interconnection-queue snapshot, July 9, 2026.