The AI Compute Race Glossary Interconnection

Interconnection

What does “Interconnection” mean?

Interconnection

See grid queue.

Grid queue The line of projects waiting to connect to the power grid, a connection the grid calls interconnection and studies before it is made. The book’s refrain is that the queue is not a forecast. Chapter 6.

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Defined in Chapter 6 — Firm, Around-the-Clock.

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Sources that use it

  • PJM Interconnection, “FERC Accepts PJM Reliability Backstop Proposal: Order Delays One-Time Procurement to Commit New Electricity Supply,” Inside Lines, 30 September 2026 (PJM’s own account: “PJM will not proceed with the Reliability Backstop Procurement on Sept. 30 as originally planned”; “All timeline milestones previously communicated for the RBP will be reviewed and communicated to stakeholders at a later date”). In the Sources
  • PJM Interconnection, “PJM Proposes Reliability Standards to Manage Large Load Disconnection Events,” Inside Lines, 10 September 2026 (the proposal introduced at the 8 September 2026 Planning Committee meeting: “minimum voltage and frequency ride-through requirements for existing and future Large Loads”, “specifically, computational loads that include data centers and crypto-mining facilities”; “PJM plans to file proposed solutions to FERC in November”; read through Browserbase on 27 September 2026). In the Sources
  • PJM Interconnection, “Powering Reliability Through Market Design,” white paper with a letter from its President and CEO, David E. Mills, 6 May 2026 (the letter: “We have also deliberately refrained from recommending a path” and “The current situation is not tenable.”; three paths, the second, “Differential Reliability,” in which “those who do not bring or fund supply cannot lean indefinitely on the shared pool,” by customer class “for example, with residential and native loads insulated from curtailment while unbacked new large load additions are curtailed first”; the diagnosis, “a credibility trap: high scarcity prices that are economically necessary to signal the need for investment become, in this environment, the trigger for governmental intervention that undermines the credibility of those same prices”; read whole, 70 pages, on 12 October 2026). In the Sources
  • PJM Interconnection, “Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee (TEAC) Recommendations to the PJM Board, PJM Staff White Paper,” February 2026 (“at an estimated cost of $11,840.24 million”; “On February 12, 2026, the Board approved the addition”; baseline reliability at every voltage, of which at least $4.32bn of rows name 765 kV). In the Sources
  • American Transmission Company LLC and ATC Management Inc., “Application for PSCW Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and WDNR Utility Permit, Ozaukee County Distribution Interconnection Project,” Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Docket No. 137-CE-229, PSC REF 610442, with the cover letter dated 14 September 2026, PSC REF 610441, and the Commission’s docket opening memorandum of 24 September 2026, PSC REF 612628 (the transmission owner’s application for a certificate to build the lines and substations that would serve Wisconsin Electric Power Company’s “end-use customer, Oracle America Cloud Services LLC … at the Lighthouse data center in Port Washington,” p. 1; “the load interconnection request seeks the full 1.3 GW of load at 345 kV, for 24/7/365, uninterrupted electric service,” p. 44; construction “is scheduled to begin immediately after receipt of the certificate and permit requested herein” and to be completed “approximately 17 months later,” p. 2; the cover letter says the application follows the Commission’s decision “to revoke the completeness determination for the Project in Docket 137-CE-221,” by a final order of 10 September 2026; the memorandum records the docket’s creation and that the Commission “begins CPCN review” when a new application is submitted; read in the public application, its cover letter and the memorandum, with the docket’s listing as served, which held no order when read). In the Sources

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How to cite this page

Dryburgh, Lee S. “Interconnection.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/interconnection (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-interconnection-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Interconnection}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/interconnection},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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