United States · energy · register
Requests to connect new generation and storage to the US grid, held by seven ISO/RTOs and ~50 balancing areas. A free annual research dataset covers 50+ operators under CC BY 4.0; commercial vendors sell daily updates over the same underlying queues.
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We build datasets in the order people request them. A request is a vote, and the count is public.
| Publisher | ISOs, RTOs and transmission-owning utilities |
|---|---|
| Publication mandate | not established |
| Licence | Mixed — PJM requires a redistribution licence and membership for commercial use; the LBNL compilation is CC BY 4.0 verified 2026-08-25 |
| Access method | mixed |
| Fragmentation | 50+ operators |
| Update frequency | varies; vendors sell daily |
| Free structured version | yes — https://emp.lbl.gov/queues LBNL 'Queued Up', CC BY 4.0, annual. Data collection is led by the GridTracker team — the free file and the paid product share a pipeline. |
| Who else serves this | GridTracker / interconnection.fyi, Pearl Street Technologies (Enverus) (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page) |
| mandated publication | unknown |
|---|---|
| terms permissive or silent | fail |
| no login paywall captcha personal data | pass |
| no specialist legal advice needed | fail |
| verdict | fail |
PJM prohibits redistribution of data 'or derived from' its systems without a licence, and commercial use requires membership. Richer fields sit behind a CEII tier requiring owner/operator authorisation.
Last checked 2026-08-25.
The clearest legal 'no' in this catalog, and worth reading as a worked example: an explicit derived-data restriction plus a statutory information tier.