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Queued Up: Status and Drivers of Generator Interconnection BacklogsJoachim Seel, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratorySolar and Storage Finance USAMay 2, 2024This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The views and opinions of the authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof, or The Regents of the University of California. Image source: Licensed from Shutterstock2Current interconnection process was designed in 2003 for an electricity system with fewer, larger, centralized power plants (though RTOs have implemented some reforms)A project developer initiates a new interconnection request (IR) and thereby enters the queueA series of interconnection studies establish what new transmission equipment or upgrades may be needed and assigns the costs of that equipmentThe studies culminate in an interconnection agreement (IA): a contract between the ISO or utility and t