Grid queue intelligence · Ontario, Alberta, Texas

The grid queue decides who gets built. We read it first.

Every project waiting for power in the IESO, AESO and ERCOT queues, read each morning. The businesses that build, power and finance them hear what moved first.

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Live · queue record as of 30 Sep 2026

2,847 projects tracked

12.1 GW waiting in Ontario · 18.5 GW in Alberta

Read every morning from

Three operators publish the queue. We make it legible.

Read every project, every morning
Interpret it for your business
Confirm it when it counts
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Queue comparison · AESO project listyesterday → today

Yesterday

Load · Fort Sask.1,800 MW

Gen · Vulcan320 MW

Load · Calgary1,400 MW

Gen · Hanna180 MW

Load · Wabamun1,000 MW

Today

Load · Fort Sask.1,800 MW

Gen · Vulcan400 MW +80

Load · CalgaryOn hold

Load · Leduc240 MW new

Load · Wabamun1,000 MW

EVERY ROW · EVERY MORNING · THREE OPERATORS

Read every project, every morning

Each queue report is compared with the previous one: new entries, stage changes, size revisions, in-service dates that slipped, projects that disappeared. Nothing is sampled and nothing is skipped.

Scoring · one project, six businessesprofile match

Data-centre load · 720 MW · Southwest zone, ONOn hold

Bridge power

Contractor / EPC

Generator / IPP

Investor

Rental power

DC developer

Interpret it for your business

Every project is scored against what you build, power or finance, the markets you work in and the sizes you serve. A contractor and an investor looking at the same queue receive different conclusions.

Verification · operator record vs. callsource · date

Operator statusISD under review (AESO)

In-service dateQ4 2027 (on record)

ConfirmedEnergization target moved to Q2 2028; interim supply under evaluation

SourceCall with developer · 29 Sep 2026

Confirmed by Blackstart

Confirm it when it counts

Where the operator's record is not enough, we speak to the developer, the engineer of record or the utility. What we confirm ourselves is labelled as such, with source and date.

Delivery · morning noteone email, five to eight items

07:00Toronto

BLACKSTART POWER · Opportunity feedTue

Update: 720 MW data-centre load placed on holdON · BP-00006

New: 240 MW load enters AESO list, LeducAB · BP-00051

Size revised: 320 → 400 MW, VulcanAB · BP-00052

Date moved: Q4 2027 → Q2 2028 (confirmed)AB · BP-00044

Deliver it to your inbox

A short note each morning with the handful of projects that matter to you, a one-page profile on any project on request, a weekly brief across all three markets, and a monthly record of what you received and acted on.

Six kinds of business depend on the same queue.

Each is answering a different question. We answer it for each of them from the same record.

Contractors, EPCs and equipment manufacturers: Every queued load is a future build. Know it exists, where it stands and when procurement is forming, before the tender.
Bridge and behind-the-meter power providers: Loads waiting on grid capacity, with dates. These are the customers for interim generation, identified while they are still waiting.
Rental and temporary power: Projects entering construction and commissioning, by region and by size, as they enter.
Generators and independent power producers: Large new loads that will need firm supply in your territory, surfaced before they contract elsewhere.
Data-centre developers and large-load operators: Who else is competing for capacity in your zone, how far along they are, and what has stalled.
Infrastructure investors and lenders: Positions that go on hold, get withdrawn or change hands, with the operator's record behind each one, before the market reads it.

The record we work from.

Figures are drawn live from our database of the three operators' queues. Project identities are withheld on this page; clients receive the names, the developer and the operator's full record.

ONTARIO · IESO0projects12.1 GW of load waiting for connection

ALBERTA · AESO0projects18.5 GW of load waiting for connection

TEXAS · ERCOT0projects438 GW of generation and storage in queue

Each dot is a point on the operator's territory; the sweep is the morning read. Texas publishes a generation queue only.

Largest data-centre loads waiting for power, Ontario and Alberta

8 of 54 · identities withheld

Project	Area	MW	Operator status
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Caroline, AB	1,864	Date under review
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Fort Saskatchewan, AB	1,800	Date under review
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Calgary, AB	1,400	Date under review
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Wabamun, AB	1,000	Date under review
Data-centre loadIESO · named for clients	West zone, ON	1,000	Active in queue
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Fort Saskatchewan, AB	830	Date under review
Data-centre loadAESO · named for clients	Sheerness, AB	800	Date under review
Data-centre loadIESO · named for clients	Southwest zone, ON	720	On hold

Status is the operator's own wording and can lag real-world decisions. Sources: IESO connection assessment queue, AESO project list, ERCOT generation interconnection report.

Standards we hold ourselves to.

Operator record first

Every fact we publish traces to the grid operator's own filing or to a conversation we had ourselves. We say which, on every item.

Confirmed is labelled confirmed

What we verified by phone carries the source and the date. What is an estimate is called an estimate. We do not fill gaps to make a story read better.

Discretion

We do not disclose who our clients are, what they are looking for, or that they are looking. Anything a client shares with us stays with us.

Yours to act on

Every lead carries a reference number, the operator's record and a next step, so your team can act the same morning. Where you would rather we make the approach, we do it under your name, on terms agreed in advance.

Market	Operator	What is on the record	Refreshed
Ontario	IESO	Connection assessment queue: loads and generation, stage, size, zone, developer	Every morning
Alberta	AESO	Project list: loads and generation, in-service dates, status, region	Every morning
Texas	ERCOT	Generation interconnection report: generation and storage only; no load records are published	Every morning

See what the queue says about your business.

Tell us what you build, power or finance and where. We will read the current record against it and send you a sample within one business day.

No mailing list and no follow-up sequence. One sample, then a conversation if you want one. Your request is not shared.

Prefer to talk first, or already know what you need? Write to joe@blackstartpower.com. Every note is read the same day.