{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "updated": "2026-09-26",
  "objective": "Identify the most specific public electricity queue, interconnection, connection, service, regulatory or planning record for every Epoch AI frontier/data-center site.",
  "important_rule": "A jurisdiction-level queue is not a site-specific queue match. Site-specific queue IDs are only recorded when the site identity is defensible.",
  "direct_queue_and_connection_sources": [
    {
      "id": "ercot_large_load",
      "name": "ERCOT Large Load Integration / Batch Zero",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "Texas",
      "authority": "ERCOT",
      "url": "https://www.ercot.com/services/rq/large-load-integration",
      "use": "Large-load interconnection requests and study process",
      "limitation": "ERCOT market jurisdiction; local transmission/distribution utility records may still be required."
    },
    {
      "id": "pjm_service_requests",
      "name": "PJM Service Requests / Interconnection",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "PJM",
      "authority": "PJM Interconnection",
      "url": "https://www.pjm.com/planning/service-requests",
      "use": "PJM service-request and interconnection records",
      "limitation": "Applicant/site fields vary by public export."
    },
    {
      "id": "spp_gi_active",
      "name": "SPP GI Active Requests / Study Listing",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "SPP",
      "authority": "Southwest Power Pool",
      "url": "https://opsportal.spp.org/Studies/GIActive",
      "use": "Active interconnection study records",
      "limitation": "SPP generation-interconnection materials are not automatically load records."
    },
    {
      "id": "spp_hill",
      "name": "SPP High Impact Large Load (HILL)",
      "type": "primary_large_load",
      "geography": "SPP",
      "authority": "Southwest Power Pool",
      "url": "https://www.spp.org/largeload/",
      "use": "Large-load integration / HILL process",
      "limitation": "Process materials and filings must be tied to the physical campus."
    },
    {
      "id": "miso_gi_api",
      "name": "MISO Generator Interconnection Queue",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "MISO",
      "authority": "MISO",
      "url": "https://www.misoenergy.org/api/giqueue/getprojects",
      "use": "Public project queue feed",
      "limitation": "Generator queue is not synonymous with MISO new-load announcements."
    },
    {
      "id": "miso_gi_queue",
      "name": "MISO Generator Interconnection Queue page",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "MISO",
      "authority": "MISO",
      "url": "https://www.misoenergy.org/planning/generator-interconnection/GI_Queue/",
      "use": "Queue documentation and public materials",
      "limitation": "Use separate MISO new-load/customer records for large-load evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "nyiso_queue",
      "name": "NYISO Interconnection Queue",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "New York",
      "authority": "NYISO",
      "url": "https://www.nyiso.com/documents/20142/1407078/NYISO-Interconnection-Queue.xlsx",
      "use": "Generation and Load Projects queue workbook",
      "limitation": "Queue MW and Epoch IT MW remain different measurements."
    },
    {
      "id": "caiso_interconnection",
      "name": "CAISO Interconnection / Cluster materials",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "California",
      "authority": "CAISO",
      "url": "https://www.caiso.com/",
      "use": "Generator interconnection and related cluster documents",
      "limitation": "The current registry capture is Cluster 15 only; whole-queue coverage requires additional CAISO clusters/materials."
    },
    {
      "id": "iso_ne_irtt",
      "name": "ISO-NE IRTT External Reports",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "New England",
      "authority": "ISO New England",
      "url": "https://irtt.iso-ne.com/reports/external",
      "use": "Public interconnection records",
      "limitation": "Public table used by the registry does not publish study stage."
    },
    {
      "id": "ieso_application_status",
      "name": "IESO Connection Application Status",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "Ontario",
      "authority": "IESO",
      "url": "https://ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/Connection-Process/Application-Status",
      "use": "Ontario connection application records",
      "limitation": "Zone/location fields may be electrical zones rather than municipalities."
    },
    {
      "id": "aeso_connection_projects",
      "name": "AESO Connection Project Reporting",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "Alberta",
      "authority": "AESO",
      "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/grid/transmission-projects/connection-project-reporting/",
      "use": "Connection project list and related reporting",
      "limitation": "Applicant/developer fields can be unpublished."
    },
    {
      "id": "bpa_interconnection",
      "name": "Bonneville Power Administration Interconnection",
      "type": "primary_queue",
      "geography": "Pacific Northwest",
      "authority": "BPA",
      "url": "https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/transmission/interconnection",
      "use": "Federal transmission interconnection",
      "limitation": "Only applies to BPA-served transmission/connection contexts."
    },
    {
      "id": "neso_connections_360",
      "name": "NESO Connections 360",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Great Britain",
      "authority": "NESO",
      "url": "https://www.neso.energy/industry-information/connections/connections-360",
      "use": "Public connection-site and contracted-project search",
      "limitation": "Connection data are not equivalent to a North American RTO queue ID."
    },
    {
      "id": "neso_registers",
      "name": "NESO Connections Registers / TEC Register",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Great Britain",
      "authority": "NESO",
      "url": "https://www.neso.energy/industry-information/connections/reports-and-registers",
      "use": "Machine-readable connection/contract registers",
      "limitation": "Requires project-to-campus identity matching."
    },
    {
      "id": "aemo_registration",
      "name": "AEMO NEM Registration List",
      "type": "primary_registry",
      "geography": "Australia NEM",
      "authority": "AEMO",
      "url": "https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/participating-entities-and-registers",
      "use": "Registered market participants and scheduled loads",
      "limitation": "Registration is not necessarily the same as a physical connection approval."
    },
    {
      "id": "aemo_connections",
      "name": "AEMO Connection Process / Connection Scorecard",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Australia",
      "authority": "AEMO",
      "url": "https://www.aemo.com.au/initiatives/major-programs/connection-process",
      "use": "Connection applications and process evidence",
      "limitation": "Network Service Provider records may be required."
    },
    {
      "id": "fingrid_connections",
      "name": "Fingrid Main Grid Connection / Open Data",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Finland",
      "authority": "Fingrid",
      "url": "https://www.fingrid.fi/en/grid/connecting-to-the-main-grid/",
      "use": "Main-grid connection process and public data",
      "limitation": "Distribution-connected campuses require DSO records."
    },
    {
      "id": "svk_connections",
      "name": "Svenska kraftnät Connection Process / Queue",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Sweden",
      "authority": "Svenska kraftnät",
      "url": "https://www.svk.se/en/grid-development/the-transmission-grid/connecting-to-the-transmission-grid/",
      "use": "Transmission connection applications/queue",
      "limitation": "Local network connections may be outside the transmission queue."
    },
    {
      "id": "statnett_connections",
      "name": "Statnett Connection Process",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Norway",
      "authority": "Statnett",
      "url": "https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-industry/grid-development-and-connection/",
      "use": "Transmission connection process",
      "limitation": "Local DSO connection may be the relevant record."
    },
    {
      "id": "tnb_connection",
      "name": "Tenaga Nasional Berhad Connection / Supply",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Malaysia",
      "authority": "TNB",
      "url": "https://www.tnb.com.my/",
      "use": "Electricity supply and large-customer connection evidence",
      "limitation": "Public site-level queue identifiers are not consistently exposed."
    },
    {
      "id": "ren_connections",
      "name": "REN Grid Connection",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Portugal",
      "authority": "REN",
      "url": "https://www.ren.pt/en-gb/activity/electricity/transmission",
      "use": "Transmission connection records",
      "limitation": "Distribution connections may be under E-REDES."
    },
    {
      "id": "eredes_connections",
      "name": "E-REDES Connection",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Portugal",
      "authority": "E-REDES",
      "url": "https://www.e-redes.pt/en/",
      "use": "Distribution connection evidence",
      "limitation": "Site-level public queue data may be limited."
    },
    {
      "id": "landsnet_connections",
      "name": "Landsnet Connection",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Iceland",
      "authority": "Landsnet",
      "url": "https://www.landsnet.is/",
      "use": "Transmission connection evidence",
      "limitation": "Local distribution records may also be required."
    },
    {
      "id": "pln_connections",
      "name": "PLN Grid Connection",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "Indonesia",
      "authority": "PLN",
      "url": "https://web.pln.co.id/",
      "use": "National utility connection evidence",
      "limitation": "Public queue identifiers are not consistently exposed."
    },
    {
      "id": "state_grid_china",
      "name": "State Grid / Provincial Grid Connection",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "China",
      "authority": "State Grid + provincial subsidiaries",
      "url": "https://www.sgcc.com.cn/",
      "use": "Grid connection and utility/regulatory evidence",
      "limitation": "Public site-level queue visibility varies by province."
    },
    {
      "id": "ewec_connections",
      "name": "EWEC / Abu Dhabi power-system connection evidence",
      "type": "primary_connection_registry",
      "geography": "United Arab Emirates",
      "authority": "EWEC + local network operators",
      "url": "https://www.ewec.ae/",
      "use": "Power-system/customer connection evidence",
      "limitation": "Site-level public queue identifiers may not be exposed."
    }
  ],
  "cross_cutting_public_sources": [
    {
      "id": "ferc_elibrary",
      "name": "FERC eLibrary",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "primary_regulatory_corpus",
      "url": "https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/elibrary",
      "use": "Transmission, utility and large-load regulatory filings",
      "limitation": "Search is docket/document based rather than a single queue table."
    },
    {
      "id": "ferc_rm26_4",
      "name": "FERC RM26-4 Large Load Interconnection",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "primary_regulatory_rulemaking",
      "url": "https://ferc.gov/rm26-4",
      "use": "Federal large-load interconnection policy/tariff proceedings",
      "limitation": "Rulemaking docket is not itself a site registry."
    },
    {
      "id": "gridtracker",
      "name": "GridTracker",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_queue_registry",
      "url": "https://www.gridtracker.io/",
      "use": "Daily queue snapshots, data-center facilities and regulatory-document discovery",
      "limitation": "Secondary source; primary utility/RTO/commission record should be retained for site-level claims."
    },
    {
      "id": "gridtracker_mcp",
      "name": "GridTracker MCP",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_research_database",
      "url": "https://www.gridtracker.io/mcp",
      "use": "Search across queue requests, PUC/FERC filings and data-center permits",
      "limitation": "Access may require a subscription."
    },
    {
      "id": "interconnection_fyi",
      "name": "Interconnection.fyi",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_queue_facility_registry",
      "url": "https://www.interconnection.fyi/",
      "use": "Facility tracker plus interconnection-queue/project evidence",
      "limitation": "Secondary; verify against the underlying utility/RTO/regulator."
    },
    {
      "id": "wattstreet",
      "name": "Watt Street state interconnection queues",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_queue_aggregator",
      "url": "https://wattstreet.net/",
      "use": "State-by-state queue aggregation and data-center campus index",
      "limitation": "Aggregation/discovery layer; not the authoritative queue."
    },
    {
      "id": "lbnl_queued_up",
      "name": "LBNL Queued Up",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_historical_queue_dataset",
      "url": "https://emp.lbl.gov/queues",
      "use": "Historical generator/storage queue coverage across ISOs/RTOs and non-ISO utilities",
      "limitation": "Generator interconnection dataset; does not include load interconnection requests."
    },
    {
      "id": "texas_ai_docket",
      "name": "Texas AI Docket",
      "geography": "Texas",
      "type": "secondary_facility_regulatory_registry",
      "url": "https://texasaidocket.com/",
      "use": "Facility dossiers combining queue, PUCT docket, permit and service evidence",
      "limitation": "Secondary research product."
    },
    {
      "id": "suedatacenters",
      "name": "SueDataCenters / Compute Atlas",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_facility_registry",
      "url": "https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers",
      "use": "Facility identities, locations and cited public records",
      "limitation": "Facility registry, not a utility queue."
    },
    {
      "id": "datacenter_fyi",
      "name": "DataCenter.fyi",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_facility_registry",
      "url": "https://www.datacenter.fyi/",
      "use": "Facility and grid/operator discovery",
      "limitation": "Secondary data source."
    },
    {
      "id": "deploy_datacenters",
      "name": "DEPLOY Data Centers Registry",
      "geography": "United States / global",
      "type": "secondary_facility_registry",
      "url": "https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters",
      "use": "Facility/utility/operator discovery",
      "limitation": "Secondary source."
    },
    {
      "id": "datacenter_index",
      "name": "Data Center Index",
      "geography": "United States / global",
      "type": "secondary_facility_registry",
      "url": "https://datacenterindex.ai/buildout-map",
      "use": "Facility/buildout and supplier discovery",
      "limitation": "Not an interconnection queue."
    },
    {
      "id": "gridcensus",
      "name": "GridCensus",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_grid_registry",
      "url": "https://gridcensus.com/",
      "use": "Grid/parcel/site screening and queue detail",
      "limitation": "Secondary and may place detailed queue data behind paid tiers."
    },
    {
      "id": "interconnectionqueue_org",
      "name": "Grid Interconnection Tracker",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "secondary_queue_screen",
      "url": "https://interconnectionqueue.org/",
      "use": "ISO/RTO queue and large-load market screening",
      "limitation": "Directional/secondary; underlying records should be verified."
    }
  ],
  "supporting_public_record_families": [
    {
      "id": "state_puc",
      "name": "State PUC/PSC docket systems",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "primary_regulatory",
      "use": "Large-load tariffs, service agreements, utility contracts, transmission approvals and site-specific proceedings",
      "examples": "Georgia PSC, PUCT, Michigan PSC, North Carolina Utilities Commission, Arizona Corporation Commission, Nevada PUC, Utah PSC, New Mexico PRC, Wyoming PSC"
    },
    {
      "id": "utility_service_records",
      "name": "Investor-owned utility / municipal / cooperative large-load records",
      "geography": "United States",
      "type": "primary_service",
      "use": "Service agreements, tariffs, customer contracts, connection studies, system impact studies and customer-planning records",
      "examples": "TNB/OG&E/OPPD/Alliant/MidAmerican/Coleman County EC/Duke/AEP/Georgia Power/TVA/NV Energy/APS/PNM and others"
    },
    {
      "id": "local_permits",
      "name": "Local government land-use / permit records",
      "geography": "Global",
      "type": "primary_supporting",
      "use": "Parcel identity, site plans, electrical service clues, generator permits, zoning and development approvals",
      "examples": "County/city planning portals, building permits, environmental permits, economic-development agreements"
    },
    {
      "id": "environmental_records",
      "name": "Environmental regulator records",
      "geography": "Global",
      "type": "primary_supporting",
      "use": "Air permits, water permits, emergency-generator permits, environmental assessments and facility identifiers",
      "examples": "State/provincial environmental agencies, EPA and equivalent national agencies"
    }
  ]
}