Vermont Interconnection Queue: 109 Projects

Vermont's interconnection queue holds 109 projects, per the sealed grid-queue snapshot dated July 9, 2026. Those 109 requests to connect total 7,842 MW (7.8 GW) of proposed capacity — and every single one of them carries an unlabeled, unknown status in the source feed, not a confirmed active or withdrawn tag.

That last point is the honest headline of this report: a queue position is a request to connect, not a built, approved, or financed project, and Vermont's feed is a clean example of why that caveat matters. 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.

Vermont's 109 projects sit entirely inside one regional grid operator's queue, and that operator simply does not publish a status field for these listings, which is why none of the 109 can honestly be called "still active" or "confirmed withdrawn."

Vermont's sealed snapshot counts 109 queued projects totaling 7,842 MW.

Key Findings

• Vermont's interconnection queue holds 109 projects totaling 7,842 MW (7.8 GW), per the sealed snapshot dated July 9, 2026.

• 100.0% of Vermont's 109 queued projects carry an unknown status — none are labeled withdrawn and none are labeled still-in-queue.

• The largest project queued in Vermont is a 1,000 MW HVDC import tie, not a generating plant.

• The "Other" fuel bucket leads Vermont's queue at a 41.3% share, ahead of Solar's 31 projects and Wind's 23 projects.

• All 109 of Vermont's projects report through ISO-NE, whose full queue runs a 26 MW median project size across 1,747 projects.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does it mean for a project to be "queued to connect" in Vermont?
A: It means a developer has filed an interconnection request with the grid operator covering Vermont, asking to be studied for a physical connection to the transmission system. Filing a request is not the same as breaking ground — 109 such requests exist in the sealed snapshot for Vermont.

Q: Why does every project in Vermont's queue show "unknown" status instead of active or withdrawn?
A: Some ISOs publish no status field at all for certain projects, and Vermont's 109 fall entirely into that bucket — 100.0% unknown. That is a gap in what the source feed reports, not a claim that all 109 projects are still moving forward; treat it as missing information, not a green light.

Q: What is the largest project in Vermont's interconnection queue?
A: A 1,000 MW listing tied to a controllable HVDC import connection, not a solar, wind, or gas plant. Vermont's queue is unusual in that its single largest entry moves power in rather than generating it.

Q: Why does "Other" lead Vermont's fuel mix instead of Solar or Wind?
A: The sealed snapshot shows Other at a 41.3% share of Vermont's 109 projects, ahead of Solar's 31 and Wind's 23. Import ties, transmission upgrades, and non-generation listings — like Vermont's own largest project — get grouped into Other because they do not match a generation-technology keyword.

Q: Does Vermont's queue span more than one grid operator?
A: No — the sealed snapshot attributes all 109 of Vermont's projects to ISO-NE, the single regional grid operator covering the state. That is different from some larger states in this edition, where projects split across more than one ISO/RTO.

Q: How does Vermont's median project size compare to its largest project?
A: Vermont's own project-level median is not the number to reach for here; what the sealed snapshot shows plainly is the gap between the 1,000 MW HVDC import tie and ISO-NE's broader 26 MW median project size — Vermont's single biggest listing runs well above what a typical ISO-NE project looks like.

Vermont Queue at a Glance, July 9, 2026

A 100.0% unknown-status share is not the same as saying every one of Vermont's 109 projects is still active — it means the source feed does not publish a status label for this state at all, and that gap should not be read as good news or bad news.

Compare that to the North Dakota queue, where 60.6% of projects are explicitly labeled withdrawn: Vermont's feed simply does not carry that information, whatever the true status of any individual project may be.

The Fuel Mix

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

The Other category's 45 projects and 5,965 MW dwarf every named generation technology in the state, which is unusual next to a queue like Nevada's, where Solar leads outright. Vermont's largest single listing — the 1,000 MW HVDC import tie — sits inside this Other bucket, and it alone accounts for a meaningful share of that category's 5,965 MW total.

Solar (31 projects, 725 MW) and Wind (23 projects, 576 MW) are both present in real volume, but neither approaches Other's scale. Battery Storage adds 8 projects and 575 MW, while Nuclear and Natural Gas each contribute a single listing with 0 MW of net new capacity attached in the sealed snapshot.

How Vermont Compares

All 109 of Vermont's projects report through ISO-NE, the same regional grid operator covering New Hampshire's 138-project, 11.1 GW queue and Rhode Island's 123-project, 11.8 GW queue. ISO-NE's full footprint runs 1,747 projects and 193.1 GW, with a 26 MW median — far smaller, project by project, than the 148 MW median across the full 12,260-project national edition, detailed in the national queue index.

ISO-NE's own top fuel bucket is Other at a 31.3% share, matching Vermont's own Other-led composition — a sign that Vermont's fuel mix is not an outlier within its own regional grid operator, even though it looks unusual against the 33.8% Solar-led national average. That is a sharp contrast with an ISO like NYISO, whose queue runs an 88.3% withdrawal rate — ISO-NE's reporting gap means Vermont cannot be measured on that same withdrawal yardstick at all.

Vermont is not the only ISO-NE state where Other tops the fuel mix — Connecticut's 322-project, 39.0 GW queue is Other-led too, while New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine all report Solar as their top fuel. That split inside a single grid operator's footprint is a reminder that "top fuel" is a state-by-state read, not a fixed regional pattern: two neighboring ISO-NE states can land on opposite sides of the Solar-versus-Other line depending on what specific projects happen to be filed there on a given day.

All 109 of Vermont's queued projects report through ISO-NE.

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. Vermont's 100.0% unknown-status share should be read as a gap in the source data, never as a claim that all 109 projects remain active.

Vermont's own project count is identical to North Dakota's — 109 — and yet the two states report through entirely different regional grid operators, illustrating how little project count alone says about a queue's underlying character.

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.

100.0% of Vermont's 109 projects carry no status label.

Put Grid Data to Work

Vermont's queue data is a narrow but real signal for a few specific audiences. Transmission planners and utilities tracking import capacity can watch the 1,000 MW HVDC tie sitting at the top of this queue as a marker of how much of Vermont's future supply may come from outside the state rather than in-state generation.

Project developers weighing Solar or Wind proposals can use the 725 MW and 576 MW figures as a baseline for how much of that capacity is already proposed ahead of any new filing. Policy researchers studying ISO-NE's reporting practices can use Vermont's 100.0% unknown-status share as a documented example of a status-reporting gap worth flagging to the operator.

Each of these is a recurring monitoring job: queue snapshots change as ISOs add status fields, projects advance, or new filings arrive, 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.