Connection queues
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
ERCOT Says It Has Paused the Energization of New Large Load Data Centers and Crypto Mining Facilities Until Its Verification and Audit and Community Impact Review Are Complete
In an update for its board meeting of September 14 and 15, 2026, ERCOT says it has begun a verification and audit of the eligibility of all large loads provisionally included in its Batch Zero study, and that it is still determining the impact on the study's timeline.
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Connected for More Than They Use: Data Centers in AEMO's 2026 Electricity Statement of Opportunities
The Australian Energy Market Operator's 2026 Electricity Statement of Opportunities says that, to date, data centers in the National Electricity Market "have been operating with a relatively flat load typically well below the maximum connection capacity." It also counts the projects proposed and canceled, and forecasts their consumption.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Studied Together: ERCOT's New Batch Process for Connecting Large Electricity Users
An explainer by the grid operator ERCOT, dated June 18, 2026, describes how it will study connection requests from large electricity users together, in batches, and two optional pathways for users that bring their own generation or let ERCOT reduce their power consumption.
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Grid interconnection Grid constraints
Wait Times Remain Long: Berkeley Lab's Queued Up 2026 on Power Plants Seeking Interconnection
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's slide deck of June 2026 summarizes requests to connect power plants and storage to the transmission grid as of the end of 2025. It finds completion rates generally low and wait times long, natural gas capacity in the queues up, and more capacity withdrawn than newly requested.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
A Place in Line and a Date to Connect: Dominion Energy's Report on Its Large-Load Customers
In a report dated May 2026, Dominion Energy says it keeps a queue for data centers and assigns energization dates, generally first in, first out. It also sets out what a data center signs and pays on the way to its meter, and the terms of a new rate class for the largest users.
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Grid interconnection Connecting large loads
Identified For and Limited to Serving a Large Load: FERC Accepts SPP's Processes for High Impact Large Loads
On January 14, 2026, the federal regulator accepted, subject to condition, the Southwest Power Pool's new tariff processes for High Impact Large Loads and for generation that supports them. The order describes SPP's proposed generation process as significantly faster than its standard one, and says its requests will not be considered higher queued than those already waiting.
