Power · large loads waiting for the grid

467.4 GW of large loads ask to join ERCOT’s grid by 2033

That is 5.1 times the 91,134 MW peak demand that ERCOT called an unofficial record in July 2026. These are requests to connect, not plants being built. ERCOT counts each load at the size its customer asked for, adds the years up, and prints the queue each month in its operational overview to its Board. ERCOT names no project, so this page joins no data center to the queue. Retrieved 3 November 2026.

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The queue grew from 136.6 GW to 467.4 GW in 16 monthly overviews

the whole queue, by the last year each table shows
  1. Apr 2025 by 2030 136.6 GW
  2. May 2025 by 2030 156.1 GW
  3. Jun 2025 by 2030 172.8 GW
  4. Jul 2025 by 2030 188.2 GW
  5. Aug 2025 by 2030 189.3 GW
  6. Sep 2025 by 2030 205.4 GW
  7. Oct 2025 by 2030 223.5 GW
  8. Nov 2025 by 2030 230.8 GW
  9. Dec 2025 by 2030 233.6 GW
  10. Jan 2026 by 2030 237.2 GW
  11. Feb 2026 by 2030 238.6 GW
  12. Mar 2026 by 2033 429.8 GW
  13. Apr 2026 by 2033 438.1 GW
  14. May 2026 by 2033 474.7 GW
  15. Jun 2026 by 2033 465.5 GW
  16. Jul 2026 by 2033 467.4 GW

Each bar is the whole queue in one overview: ERCOT’s tables add the years up, so the last year holds every request. The tables run to 2030 until February 2026, and to 2033 from March 2026. ERCOT’s overviews for August 2026 and September 2026 print no queue table, so July 2026 is the newest.

ERCOT’s peak demand, for scale: “ERCOT set a new unofficial all-time peak demand record of 91,134 MW” (ERCOT Monthly Operational Overview (July 2026)).

52% of the queue is “No Studies Submitted”

July 2026 · ERCOT’s status words · by 2033
  1. Observed Energized 5.7 GW
  2. A2E but not operational 3.7 GW
  3. Section 9.4/9.5 Requirements Met 67.2 GW
  4. Section 9.4 Requirements Only 13.8 GW
  5. Under ERCOT Review 132.0 GW
  6. No Studies Submitted 244.9 GW
ERCOT’s table, July 2026, in GW, each year adding to the last
Project status 202220232024202520262027202820292030203120322033
No Studies Submitted 0.00.00.04.132.3101.0180.6221.1233.1244.6244.9244.9
Under ERCOT Review 0.00.00.03.09.944.594.0114.1126.5132.0132.0132.0
Section 9.4 Requirements Only 0.00.00.00.01.76.610.913.413.813.813.813.8
Section 9.4/9.5 Requirements Met 0.00.00.00.013.642.056.260.363.866.867.267.2
A2E but not operational 0.00.41.83.23.73.73.73.73.73.73.73.7
Observed Energized 3.34.34.85.75.75.75.75.75.75.75.75.7
Total 3.34.76.616.066.9203.5351.2418.4446.8466.8467.4467.4

ERCOT defines each status on the slide itself: ERCOT Monthly Operational Overview (July 2026), p. 9.

4,370 MW of large load is drawing power, of 9,456 MW approved to energize

what ERCOT observes, July 2026

“Of the 9,456 MW that have received Approval to Energize, ERCOT has observed a non-simultaneous monthly peak consumption of 4,370 MW in July 2026.”

ERCOT, ERCOT Monthly Operational Overview (July 2026). The peak is the sum of each approved load’s highest draw in the month, so the loads did not all draw it at once.

Sources

queue.csv Every dataset → Status → Glossary →