1,641 Projects in the NYISO Interconnection Queue

NYISO's interconnection queue held 1,641 generation and storage projects as of July 9, 2026 — every one of them a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. This report covers 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. It is a census of the published queues, not of every project on every grid in the country.

Two things make NYISO's slice of that census stand out. First, 88.3% of its queued projects have already withdrawn — the highest withdrawal share of the six ISOs this edition covers. Second, when we group NYISO's own fuel and technology labels into our standard buckets, 97.7% of the queue lands in a catch-all category we call Other. That is not a story about what New York is building; it is a story about how poorly NYISO's raw labels map onto a shared taxonomy, and it is worth reading that way.

NYISO's queue holds 1,641 projects worth 345.2 GW of capacity.

Key Findings

According to the sealed snapshot, here is what NYISO's slice of the interconnection-queue census looks like on July 9, 2026:

• 1,641 projects sit in NYISO's queue, representing 345.2 GW of proposed capacity.

• 88.3% of those projects — 1,449 of them — have already withdrawn from the queue.

• Only 11.7% (192 projects) remain actively in queue by NYISO's own reporting.

• The median NYISO project is 94 MW, well below ERCOT's 201 MW median.

• 97.7% of NYISO's queue falls into the Other fuel bucket — a labeling artifact, not a technology signal.

• New York state itself accounts for 1,521 of NYISO's 1,641 total queued projects.

NYISO's Queue at a Glance

The table below is NYISO's full status picture as sealed on the snapshot date. NYISO's own feed reports only withdrawn and still-in-queue statuses for these projects — no separate operational or unknown counts are present in this ISO's sealed data.

A withdrawal share this high is not a red flag specific to NYISO — interconnection queues nationally run heavy on withdrawals, since a queue slot is cheap to request and expensive to build out. But at 88.3%, NYISO sits well above its regional neighbor ISO-NE, which our sealed snapshot shows at 0.0% withdrawn for this edition — a difference in how the two ISOs' feeds report status, not necessarily in how many projects actually leave.

A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. NYISO's 88.3% withdrawal share is the clearest illustration of that rule in this edition — most of what has ever entered this queue has already left it.

Where NYISO's Fuel Mix Gets Murky

Every ISO describes its own projects with its own vendor labels — "Battery," "BESS," "Solar PV," "Hybrid Solar+Storage," and dozens of local variants. We group those labels into six shared buckets (Solar, Battery Storage, Wind, Natural Gas, Hybrid, and Other) by keyword, and that bucketing is our methodology choice, not something NYISO itself publishes.

Other fuel types make up 97.7% of NYISO's queue.

Read plainly, that table does not say New York's grid queue is overwhelmingly non-renewable. It says NYISO's own project descriptions rarely contain the keywords our bucketing rules look for — no "Battery," no "Wind," no clean "Solar" tag on the vast majority of entries. Four projects land cleanly in Solar (80 MW total) and 33 land in Natural Gas (18,588 MW); everything else — 1,604 projects worth 326,494 MW — falls to Other by default.

Anyone comparing NYISO's fuel mix to the national picture in the index, where Solar leads at 33.8% share, should treat that comparison with real caution: this is largely a NYISO labeling gap, not a New York solar drought.

Do not read NYISO's 97.7% Other share as a statement about New York's energy mix. It is a statement about how NYISO writes down its project descriptions, and how our keyword rules fail to parse most of them.

For anyone pulling this fuel table into a broader analysis, the practical lesson is to treat NYISO's Other bucket as "unclassified," not as a real technology category, and to lean on the Natural Gas and Solar rows — the two buckets NYISO's own labels do support cleanly — for any technology-specific read on this queue.

How NYISO Stacks Up Against the Other Five ISOs

This edition's sealed snapshot covers six ISOs and RTOs across 36 states. NYISO is the smallest of the six by project count but not by capacity — its 345.2 GW sits above ISO-NE's 193.1 GW and SPP's 188.9 GW despite fewer projects than either MISO or CAISO.

NYISO's median project size (94 MW) sits comfortably between ISO-NE's tiny 26 MW median and ERCOT's much larger 201 MW median — a mid-sized queue by peer standards.

The withdrawal column is the one that needs a caveat: ERCOT, ISO-NE, and SPP all show 0.0% withdrawn in this edition. That is a feed artifact, not a claim that nothing has ever withdrawn from those queues — some ISOs drop withdrawn projects from their published feed entirely, so a 0.0% reading means "not visible in this feed," never "none happened." NYISO and CAISO, by contrast, both publish withdrawn projects, which is a large part of why their withdrawal shares (88.3% and 77.0%) look so much higher.

A comparable slice of that same New York footprint — outside NYISO's own boundary framing — is covered separately in the New York state interconnection-queue report, and Vermont's much smaller ISO-NE-territory queue is a useful contrast for how differently two states inside the same regional grid can look.

Methodology

All figures come from public ISO/RTO interconnection-queue listings, via the grid-queue clock (sealed daily, content-hashed). 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 (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 by nature — a large share of what enters a queue withdraws before anything is built, and NYISO's own 88.3% withdrawal share is a direct illustration of that.

1. Collect. Pull each covered ISO's published interconnection-queue feed daily.

2. Normalize. Map each ISO's own project, fuel, and status labels into shared fields.

3. Bucket. Group fuel labels into the six shared technology buckets, and status labels into withdrawn / operational / still-in-queue / unknown, using keyword rules.

4. Seal. Content-hash the normalized snapshot so every published figure traces back to one immutable daily capture.

88.3% of NYISO's queued projects have already withdrawn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does a project in NYISO's queue mean it will be built?
A: No. A queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project. In this edition, 88.3% of NYISO's 1,641 queued projects have already withdrawn, which is the clearest evidence that queue entry and construction are two very different things.

Q: How is this sealed snapshot different from just re-querying NYISO's own queue page?
A: A re-query can change from one visit to the next as NYISO updates its feed. This report is built from one sealed, content-hashed capture taken on July 9, 2026, so every number here is traceable to that exact snapshot rather than to whatever the live page shows today.

Q: Why does Other make up 97.7% of NYISO's fuel mix?
A: Because our fuel-bucketing keywords rarely match NYISO's own project-label wording, not because non-renewable projects dominate New York's queue. Only 4 projects match our Solar keywords and 33 match Natural Gas; the remaining 1,604 default to Other.

Q: Who actually uses NYISO interconnection-queue data like this?
A: Project developers checking where new requests are landing, EPC contractors and equipment suppliers reading regional demand, and utility or policy researchers tracking how a queue moves between withdrawn and still-active are the most common users of a queue snapshot like this one.

Q: How does NYISO's withdrawal rate compare to the other five ISOs in this snapshot?
A: At 88.3%, NYISO's withdrawal share is the highest of the six. CAISO is next at 77.0%, then MISO at 56.4%. ERCOT, ISO-NE, and SPP all show 0.0% in this edition, which reflects feeds that drop withdrawn projects entirely rather than queues with no withdrawals.

Put NYISO Queue Data to Work

Three groups read a queue this concentrated in withdrawals and Other-bucketed fuel differently.

Project developers weighing a new New York interconnection request can use NYISO's 88.3% withdrawal share and 94 MW median as a baseline for how crowded — and how thinned-out — this specific queue already is. A developer sizing a new request against NYISO's median would be filing above the typical 94 MW slot; sizing near ERCOT's 201 MW median would look unusually large by NYISO's own history. The workflow here is recurring, not a one-time read: re-pull NYISO's feed on a set cadence and flag the moment a comparably sized project ahead of yours changes status.

EPC contractors and equipment suppliers watching for near-term construction demand get more signal from the 192 projects still in queue than from the full 1,641, since that smaller group is what has not already left. Monitoring which of those 192 move toward operational status — rather than the full historical queue — is the higher-value recurring signal for staging equipment and crews.

Utility and policy researchers tracking regional capacity can use the 345.2 GW total alongside the fuel-bucketing caveat above to avoid over-reading NYISO's technology mix from this snapshot alone; the more durable exercise is watching how the withdrawn, in-queue, and Other-bucketed shares move release over release, not treating any single sealed day as a forecast.

US Tech Automations builds automation around exactly this kind of recurring monitoring — watching an ISO's published feed for status changes, routing new-project signals to the right team, and drafting first-touch outreach the moment a queue entry moves. See how that works for grid and energy teams.

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