01 · Interconnection
Real-time large-load interconnection tracking and application automation across every US ISO, RTO, and major utility. Built for the developer side of the queue — where no software existed until us.
Preview
A live portfolio view across ERCOT, PJM, SPP, MISO, and NYISO. Sort by stage, by risk, by upgrade cost. Push any row into a deal room, a study request, or a regulatory memo in two clicks.
Active interconnection
5 projects · 3 ISOs · 3,325 MW
The problem
FERC Order 2023 standardized generation interconnection across ISOs. Large-load interconnection has no equivalent framework. A developer filing across PJM, ERCOT, and MISO encounters three different processes, three different timelines, three different fee structures. Consultants resell the difference for $500,000 a project.
LBNL queued capacity, 2025
2024 annual queue report
ERCOT filing, Feb 2026 Open Meeting
PUCO, Feb 2026
Active deadlines we're tracking
The wedge
GridUnity sits on the ISO and utility side. Pearl Street (acquired by Enverus) models generation. Nira Energy helps MISO generation developers. None of these tools serves the developer filing a large-load interconnection request — because until 2023, there were not enough of them to justify a product.
Then, in eighteen months, every hyperscaler announced a multi-gigawatt buildout. CenterPoint logged a 700% increase in large-load requests. ERCOT contracted McKinsey to redesign its process. Dominion filed a formal queue process under Virginia SCC direction. The product gap opened wide enough to see daylight through.
We built Queue Intelligence for the 80 gigawatts of projects under active development that need software, not another 50-slide consultant deck.
How it works
Every interconnection application looks the same from 30,000 feet: connect the project, watch the queue, model the upgrade, file the paperwork. We automated each step and kept the transparency that the ISO requires.
Upload a load profile, a candidate substation list, or an existing ISA. We normalize it against our shared electrical graph — 7 ISOs, 212 utilities, 4,800 substations — in minutes.
Works with PSS/E, PowerWorld, PSCAD, and Excel.
Track your position, your neighbors, upstream upgrades, and the studies that gate your commercial operation date. We refresh directly from ISO public feeds and utility portals.
Cluster studies, serial studies, and fast-track paths.
Monte Carlo your interconnection cost across upgrade scenarios. See which candidate POIs have headroom, which are blocked by an upstream queue, and which are one substation away from feasibility.
Ships with a 10-year probabilistic power flow model.
Generate the FERC Form, ISO request package, and utility load study request with your project data pre-mapped. Track review cycles, deficiency letters, and Interconnection Service Agreements in one place.
Currently supports ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO. CAISO and ISO-NE in beta.
Features
We encode the actual procedural differences — cluster windows, readiness requirements, withdrawal penalties — so a project that moves across ISOs does not start from a blank form each time.
Nightly ingestion of ISO queue, outage, and base case data. Know which substations on your shortlist are one megawatt away from triggering a network upgrade.
Pre-filled load profiles, single-line diagrams, voltage tolerances, and SCADA schedules. Cuts the average ISO submission cycle from 14 weeks of law firm prep to three days.
When the ISO or utility comes back with questions, we route each question to the right engineer on your side, track the clock, and remind you before you lose queue position.
When a neighbor withdraws, when a network upgrade closes out, when a fast-track path opens — you get notified before your consultants do.
Every ISA revision tracked as a diff. Your counsel sees the delta, not another 400-page PDF.
The entire queue state is reproducible. We cite the ISO source for every field and freeze a daily snapshot so you can replay any historical moment.
Drop into your existing project management, DCIM, or EMS. We push events, you pull filtered queue views for internal dashboards.
“We saved $20 million by being ahead of it. That is the entire thesis of queue intelligence — information latency is the tax, software removes the tax.”
Built for
Hut 8, TeraWulf, Riot, and every operator trying to monetize existing power infrastructure for HPC. You have the megawatts. We help you get the right ISA — and the right POI — so the AI workload actually lands.
Stream, Novva, DC BLOX, and operators in second-tier markets where the local utility has never run a 200 MW load study before. We level the playing field against hyperscaler government affairs teams.
Power companies and hyperscalers restructuring deals under the FERC 12/2025 order. Our queue graph is the only place your upstream transmission assumptions and your co-location assumptions live in the same object.
You are evaluating 40 sites a month and every diligence package is different. We offer a read-only seat with a standardized queue risk score so your IC memo does not start from a law firm PDF.
Pricing
We publish pricing because the alternative to transparent software pricing is $1,200-an-hour engineering consulting. You already know that math.
For one active interconnection request — ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, or NYISO.
Unlimited active projects across one ISO, plus the full upgrade-scenario modeler.
Full multi-ISO coverage, SSO, audit log, and a dedicated regulatory engineer.
Usage cap: Developer tier covers up to 25 active projects. Above that, we move you to Enterprise. All plans include public queue data, case-law snippets, and the regulatory graph — those are the product, not add-ons.
Questions
GridUnity is the platform of record for ISOs and utilities — it lives on the other side of the interconnection queue from you. Pearl Street (now Enverus) models generation-side power flow. Nira Energy targets MISO generation developers. None of them serve the data center developer filing a large-load interconnection request. We do only that, across every major ISO.
Production: ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO, Dominion, Duke, ComEd, AEP, Entergy, Georgia Power, TVA, Oncor, CenterPoint. Beta: CAISO, ISO-NE, Xcel, PG&E. We ship new ISOs roughly every six weeks.
Yes. Most customers bring existing engineering consultants (Burns & McDonnell, Black & Veatch, POWER Engineering, smaller boutiques) and use Cliffcenter to coordinate between consultant, counsel, and the ISO. We are not trying to replace your engineering; we are trying to kill the email thread.
All customer projects live in a per-tenant database with no cross-customer visibility. Public queue data is shared, your internal data is not. We are SOC 2 Type II in progress (target: Q3 2026) and happy to sign per-project NDAs.
We ship a dedicated co-location module that tracks the three PJM transmission service options, the 11 open questions, and the 2028 transition deadlines. If your project has a BTM component, our BTM Workflow solution integrates directly with Queue Intelligence so your co-location assumptions and your transmission assumptions stay in sync.
Yes. One-off queue diligence reports are $12,000 per project and come with a 5-day turnaround. We will not lock you into a subscription for a one-time deal.
Playbooks
Our engineers write ISO-specific playbooks whenever a rulemaking, tariff change, or queue reform lands. They are the technical deep-ends of the product — read before every customer kickoff.
The 226 GW queue, the PUCT 58481 draft rule, the ERCOT Batch Study framework, and the new self-curtailment regime. Written for the engineer about to submit, not the LP.
Read the ERCOT playbook →PJM · FERC 12/2025The 195 GW queue, the Cycle 1 reform, the $16.4B capacity auction, and the three FERC-ordered transmission service options. Updated after every reply round.
Read the PJM playbook →MISO · DPP Phase IIIThe 312 GW queue, the Order 2023 rewrite, the $23.5B LRTP Tranche 3, and the Affected System studies that gate every seam-adjacent project.
Read the MISO playbook →NYISO · Class YearThe 6.53-year median COD, the CLCPA match obligations, the Con Edison / NYPA distinctions, and the PSC proceedings every New York project lives in.
Read the NYISO playbook →SPP · DISISThe densest coal-to-DC opportunity in the country, the DISIS framework, and the Affected System exposure at the MISO / ERCOT / WECC seams.
Read the SPP playbook →CAISO · Cluster Study (Beta)The longest interconnection timelines in the country, the Cluster Study Process, SB 100 compliance, and the wildfire risk overlays that no other ISO requires.
Read the CAISO playbook →ISO-NE · FCA (Beta)The Forward Capacity Market, NEPOOL stakeholder process, winter fuel security, and the six state commissions that cross every project’s path.
Read the ISO-NE playbook →Related
Queue Intelligence
Give us your candidate POI list. Within 72 hours, you get a queue risk memo, an upgrade-cost envelope, and a filing plan that respects the FERC 12/2025 transition.