Insight
Queue-era facts that keep showing up in dockets
The facts that repeat are process facts: a published MW screen, a batch study, a request total that is not a peak, a document ID that does not change when the headline does. Charts below use mid-2026 ERCOT public paper only.
Batch and study regimes
ERCOT’s June 18, 2026 Trending Topics PDF is the public contrast: more than 438,000 MW of proposed large-load connection requests, about 89–90% data centers, against an 85,508 MW all-time peak (August 10, 2023). Public TAC summaries of July 28, 2026 panel materials report Batch Zero preliminary eligibility near 205 GW. A request is not an energized campus.
PJM large-load / IRAS and SPP HILL are the same idea on other footprints. FERC 205/206 packages matter when they name large load. How to read a row: How to read an interconnection-queue row.
Source: ERCOT Trending Topics PDF (June 18, 2026) for 85,508 MW peak and >438,000 MW requests (~89–90% data centers). Batch Zero ~205 GW from July 28, 2026 ERCOT panel data as reported in public TAC summaries. Footnotes 1–2.
Source: ERCOT, Batch Zero Verification and Audit PUCT presentation (Aug. 20, 2026): large loads 75 MW or greater; medium loads at least 25 MW and less than 75 MW. Teaching notes — confirm the live Planning Guide. Footnote 2.
Run a stated MW against illustrative screens: Large-load public screen checker.
Why the document ID is the fact
Source + document ID + event class is how you know whether tomorrow is new. Build the string: event identity builder.
Categories that tend to move first (next 12–24 months)
Not a forecast of any campus. The kinds of filings with open process paper: large-load tariff 205s and ISO batch-rule packages; county overlay rewrites; class changes on existing queue IDs; 8-Ks that state MW. National TWh bands live on the public arc of U.S. data-center power.
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Sources
- ERCOT, Trending Topics: New Batch Connection Process for Large Electricity Users (June 18, 2026) — >438,000 MW proposed requests; ~89–90% data centers; 85,508 MW peak (Aug. 10, 2023).
- ERCOT, Batch Zero Verification and Audit PUCT presentation (Aug. 20, 2026) — ≥75 MW large; 25–<75 MW medium. ~205 GW Batch Zero eligibility: July 28, 2026 ERCOT panel / public TAC summaries.
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