Norris: US interconnection queue grew 40% in 2022 to over 2,000 GW
Tyler Norris · Fixing interconnection · Sep 21, 2023 · at 8:57
Energy researcher Tyler Norris contextualizes the US power grid bottleneck, comparing the 2,000 GW queue backlog to the entire US operational fleet of 1,200 GW.
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“So, in twenty-twenty-two alone, the backlog of projects in interconnection queues waiting to connect to the grid Grew by 40%. It brought the total to just over 2000 gigawatts. 80% of this growth, growth was driven by solar and storage projects, and for comparison, we have around 1200 gigawatts of generation capacity in the U.S. That's operational. So, of this 2000 gigawatts, 1350 around is generation capacity. Storage is about 700 gigawatts of that.”
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