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A streamlined process for interconnecting generating facilities

The generation interconnection planning process helps power plants interconnect to the ISO grid. We provide information and resources to help you understand and comply with requirements.

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ISO Tariff
Business Practice Manual for Generator Interconnection Procedures
Business Practice Manual for Generator Interconnection and Deliverability Allocation Procedures
Business Practice Manual for Generator Management

Generator interconnection application process

Learn requirements and processes for successful interconnection of a resource to the California ISO grid to participate in the wholesale energy markets.

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Interconnection facility information
Find active, complete and withdrawn interconnection facilities and a summary of interconnection requests by study process starting with those received in 2015.
- ISO Generator Interconnection Queue
  Link to the RIMS public site. To view Project Queue Report select Reporting tab on the RIMS web page.
  NOTE: If you have issues downloading the XLSX file in RIMS, click here.
- Constraint Mapping with TPD Allocated April 20234/04/2024 08:31
- Interconnection Area - Constraint Zones4/04/2024 08:31
- Generator Interconnection Resource ID Report4/22/2024 11:25
  This is a static report that will be updated weekly providing a list of projects that are in the New Resource Interconnection process and how the units are progressing to its commercial operation date for the resource ID. The spreadsheet has instructions that describe the columns in the first tab of the spreadsheet.
- Cluster 15 Interconnection Requests1/03/2024 14:10
  Projects will be published in the ISO Generation Queue once they are validated in 2023 as proposed in the 2023 Interconnection Process Enhancement stakeholder process.
- Briefing on Resources Available for Near Term Interconnection12/05/2023 15:03
- FERC 845 Interconnection Study Statistics4/16/2024 08:25

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Complete interconnection agreements

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