"Where can I connect?" is the question of the decade, for generators and gigawatt-scale loads alike. The answer starts with who is already in line - and what history says about their odds. This dashboard runs a full survival analysis on every project that ever entered the CAISO queue: the probability of reaching commercial operation by queue age, technology, county and cluster; withdrawal rates and timing; and how queue-to-COD durations are trending. LBNL publishes this as an annual PDF - this rebuilds continuously from CAISO's own daily queue report, and every chart recomputes live as you filter.
The map above is the supply side. The loads chasing the same grid — data centers, electrolyzers — interconnect through a separate utility process that CAISO does not study or publish as a project-level queue, so they can't be mapped here. Only aggregates are public, and they are large:
Aggregate figures, not mapped points — there is no free public queue of individual large-load requests with locations. Read the generation contention below as the competition a new load would face for the same interconnection headroom.
All project data comes from CAISO's Public Queue Report (the "ISO Generator Interconnection Queue"), which CAISO regenerates daily. It lists every active, completed and withdrawn interconnection request with queue date, technology, fuel, capacity, county, utility, point of interconnection, study progress and - for completed projects - the actual commercial operation date. County boundaries are from the US Census via click_that_hood.
Because this is the generator interconnection queue, it covers only resources that inject power — generation and storage. Large loads such as data centers and electrolyzers do not appear here: they interconnect through a separate utility large-load process that CAISO does not publish as a comparable public queue. The siting view therefore shows the generation already contending for capacity near a point, not competing loads.
Berkeley Lab's Queued Up series is the canonical annual snapshot of US interconnection queues and inspired this page. The difference: this dashboard covers CAISO only, but rebuilds from the daily report and lets you compute any slice interactively rather than reading last year's aggregate.