What Is Queued to Connect in North Dakota?

What is queued to connect in North Dakota? As of July 9, 2026, the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot counts 109 projects totaling 14,249 MW (14.2 GW) with a point of interconnection in the state. Every one of those 109 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a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project — a large share of queue positions nationally end up withdrawn before construction, and North Dakota's own withdrawal share sits well above the 12,260-project edition average.

This is a census of the published queues that US Tech Automations' 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 distinctive thing about North Dakota's slice is what fills it: wind, not solar, is the dominant technology by a wide margin, the reverse of the national pattern, and the state's projects are split across more than one regional grid operator rather than sitting neatly inside one ISO's queue.

North Dakota's sealed snapshot counts 109 queued projects totaling 14,249 MW.

Key Findings

• North Dakota's interconnection queue holds 109 projects totaling 14,249 MW, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot.

• Wind accounts for 59 of North Dakota's 109 queued projects, a 54.1% share of the count.

• 60.6% of North Dakota's queued projects have withdrawn, versus 43.6% across the full edition.

• The largest single project queued in North Dakota carries 750 MW, per the sealed snapshot.

• MISO's queue accounts for 83 of North Dakota's 109 projects, according to the sealed interconnection-queue snapshot — the remainder sit in a different regional grid operator's queue, evidence that this state's projects are not confined to a single ISO. See the full national queue index for how every state compares.

North Dakota Queue at a Glance, July 9, 2026

A 200 MW median against a 14,249 MW total says this queue is not one or two mega-projects carrying the state — it is a wide base of mid-size wind and solar proposals with a handful of larger natural-gas and battery entries stacked on top. The 750 MW largest project is sizable but is not the outlier that some queues carry; North Dakota's story is breadth, not a single headline project.

The withdrawal share (60.6%) is the number to anchor on before reading anything else in this report — a majority of what has ever been proposed for North Dakota's grid has already been pulled.

Some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their feed entirely, which is why a 0.0% withdrawal figure elsewhere in this edition is a feed artifact rather than a claim that nothing withdrew there — North Dakota's feed does retain withdrawn rows, which is exactly why its 60.6% is visible at all. Read that as a floor, not a ceiling, on how much of this queue will never be built.

The Fuel Mix

North Dakota'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 are standardized by keyword, not by our research team independently verifying each project's equipment.

Wind

Wind is the category that defines this queue: 59 projects totaling 7,106 MW, more than half of every project sitting in North Dakota's queue by count. A wind interconnection request typically ties a cluster of turbines to a substation or transmission line, and the volume here reflects the state's long-standing role as a wind resource area — developers keep proposing new wind capacity even though, as the status table above shows, most of what has been proposed historically has not survived to operation.

Natural Gas

Only 5 natural-gas projects sit in the queue, but they carry 3,035 MW between them — more capacity than the 20-project solar category. That is the shape of a thermal queue everywhere: a handful of large combined-cycle or peaker proposals can outweigh dozens of smaller renewable requests on a megawatt basis, even while trailing badly on project count.

Solar

Solar holds 20 projects and 1,942 MW, a modest slice next to wind's dominance. That gap is itself the distinctive read for this state: in queues like California's, solar and battery storage crowd out everything else; in North Dakota, wind's head start as the region's signature resource keeps solar in a secondary position.

Battery Storage

13 battery-storage projects total 1,060 MW. Storage proposals in a wind-heavy queue typically pair with — or piggyback on interconnection studies already opened by — nearby wind capacity, smoothing output rather than acting as a standalone generation source.

Hybrid and Other

9 hybrid projects (481 MW) and 3 projects bucketed as Other (625 MW) round out the queue. Hybrid listings combine two technologies (commonly wind or solar paired with storage) under one interconnection request; Other captures listings whose vendor label does not match any of the five named keyword buckets.

How North Dakota Compares

North Dakota's 109 projects sit inside MISO for the majority of the count — 83 of 109, per the sealed snapshot — with MISO's full queue running far larger at 3,792 projects and 299.5 GW. MISO's own withdrawal share (56.4%) sits close to North Dakota's, and MISO's top fuel is also different from North Dakota's: Solar at a 46.4% share for MISO overall, versus Wind's 54.1% inside North Dakota specifically.

MISO's queue holds 83 of North Dakota's 109 projects.

Against its closest-sized peers, North Dakota's queue is quieter in raw project count than South Dakota's 55-project, 6.8 GW slice would suggest — North Dakota carries roughly double South Dakota's capacity across a similar-order project count, consistent with a queue built on larger average project sizes. Kentucky, sitting on the smaller end at 62 projects and 3.4 GW, shows how differently two MISO states can be composed: Kentucky's top fuel is Solar, North Dakota's is Wind, even though both report through the same regional operator.

Nationally, Solar carries the largest fuel share at 33.8%, meaning North Dakota's wind-heavy composition runs against the grain of the broader 12,260-project census rather than following it.

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.

North Dakota's 60.6% withdrawal share and 54.1% Wind share are two separate facts about the same 109 projects — a wind-heavy queue can still shed most of its filings, and this one has.

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.

North Dakota's queue holds 9 operational projects out of 109.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does it mean for a project to be "queued to connect" in North Dakota?
A: It means a developer has filed an interconnection request with a grid operator covering North Dakota, 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 — 109 such requests exist in the sealed snapshot.

Q: Does North Dakota's 60.6% 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, changed financing, or developers moving to a more advanced queue position rather than a verdict on the state's grid.

Q: Why is Wind the largest fuel category in North Dakota when Solar leads nationally?
A: The sealed snapshot shows Wind at a 54.1% share of North Dakota's 109 projects, while Solar carries the largest national share at 33.8%. The gap reflects what developers are actually proposing state by state — North Dakota's wind resource has drawn more of these specific filings than solar has.

Q: Why does this report show North Dakota split across grid operators?
A: The sealed snapshot attributes 83 of North Dakota's 109 projects to MISO. Interconnection queues are organized by grid operator, not strictly by state border, so a state that sits at the edge of a regional footprint can have projects studied by more than one ISO/RTO.

Q: What does "unknown status" mean in a state report like this one?
A: Some ISOs publish no status field at all for certain projects, and those are bucketed as unknown rather than assumed active. North Dakota's own withdrawn, in-queue, and operational counts are all populated by its source feed, so unknown does not apply to the figures reported above.

Put Grid Data to Work

North Dakota's queue data fits a narrow set of buyers with a real, recurring reason to watch it. Project developers siting the next wind or storage request can use the 60.6% withdrawal share and the 200 MW median as a baseline for how crowded and how competitive this specific queue already is before filing.

EPC contractors and equipment suppliers reading demand can watch the fuel mix — Wind's 59-project lead over every other category — to decide where to route turbine, inverter, and interconnection-equipment sales effort. Utilities and policy researchers tracking regional grid planning can use the MISO/other-ISO split (83 of 109 projects in MISO) to understand how much of North Dakota's queue falls under which operator's study process.

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.