Grid interconnection queues are artificially inflated by unfunded, speculative projects
Cindy Taff · Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage · Dec 17, 2025 · at 13:51
Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, explains why utility interconnection queues experience severe backlog and delay across the US.
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“Because the process is so long, different Projects will be put into the queue, even though they may or may not be funded, even though they may or may not, you know, know that they're going to be going forward, and so the queue gets very long, and then projects will drop out, which will speed up the queue, you know, eventually, but it's still a huge challenge, because that queue is, is falsely too long, because there's technologies that are in the queue that may never be Built, or projects, I should say, that may never be built.”
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