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Ground Truth: The Interconnection Queue
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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE — GROUND TRUTH Episode 1: The Interconnection Queue
Boujie mentioned a number this week — 474 gigawatts of large-load connection requests backed up in Texas, roughly 90% of it tied to data centers. Wade takes it apart.
WHAT'S COVERED
The Number — Why "474 gigawatts" isn't the number you think it is, and what ERCOT itself is actually tracking versus what got audited, paused, and questioned along the way.
The Machine — What an interconnection queue actually is, why…
The skinny
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