How much new load wants to join the Texas grid?

467.4 GW

Large loads that ask to join ERCOT’s grid by 2033 add up to 467.4 GW, in ERCOT’s queue table for July 2026. These are requests to connect, not plants under construction.

For July 2026. Data checked 3 Nov 2026, from queue.csv.

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Jesse Hawkins, “How much new load wants to join the Texas grid?”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 3 Nov 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/texas-grid-large-load-queue/. Data: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), ERCOT terms of use, as this site publishes it in power/queue.csv; checked 3 Nov 2026.

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@misc{hawkins2026answerstexasgridlargeloadqueue,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{How much new load wants to join the Texas grid?}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/texas-grid-large-load-queue/}},
  note = {Data: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), ERCOT terms of use, as this site publishes it in power/queue.csv; checked 3 Nov 2026, retrieved 2026-11-03}
}

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Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) (ERCOT terms of use), as this site publishes it in queue.csv: ERCOT large-load queue: MW by ERCOT’s status words and by year, from each monthly operational overview.

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