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Kansas grid connection queue

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Last amended: 2026-10-25. See all amendments.

The problem. Kansas has asked to connect far more power plants to the grid than get built. Of 585 Kansas requests to the Southwest Power Pool since 2000, 385 withdrew and 60 are operating (end of 2025) [2].

Key numbers - About 1 in 6 Kansas requests filed 2000-2019 got built; about 3 in 4 withdrew [2]. - Solar: 1 of 42 built. Batteries: 0 of 19 (2000-2019 requests) [2]. - 67 Kansas projects (~15,400 MW) have signed agreements but are not built; typical request age 6.5 years [1]. - Built projects took a median 4.6 years from request to operation [2].

Who it affects. Electric customers facing rising peak demand, rural counties and landowners counting on lease and tax income, and developers.

What is unknown. Why projects withdraw. No public dataset records it.

Options (scenarios, not recommendations). Firmer deposits and deadlines; fast-track for capacity needs (in use: 9 Kansas requests, ~3,100 MW); build shared transmission ahead of time (JTIQ: ~$1.65B for ~28.6 GW); enforce milestones on signed-but-idle projects; reuse retiring plants' grid connections. See Scenarios.