Dan Cook

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Not Your Father’s Data Center · Solar Power's Role in the Future of Digital and Energy Infrastructure · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

When I started in this industry, you could still potentially get a new power plant up and running in certain markets on a three-year timeline.

Now, I think that average is easily five years.

It's not going the right direction.

It's not going backwards.

It's really just continuing onwards.

And we've got projects that are a part of that timeline six years before they'll have operations.

It's the new normal.

I think it's a couple of things.

It is the sheer amount of projects.

I mean, the grid operators themselves, I don't think were equipped.

And the processes that they have were just not equipped to deal with hundreds upon hundreds of queue applications.

So there is that sort of raw kind of headcount, talent, workforce to be able to do the work.

But then you also get into...

you know developers or projects that sort of start gamifying the queue if you will you know historically you design your project you pick your point of interconnection and say okay we're going to see how much it costs how much of the upgrades we need to shoulder in order to get that project online those costs are somewhat socialized across all the other projects

in your queue, in your cluster, in that grid operator.

So it's hard to get a true picture of what the interconnection costs might be if 80% of the projects might withdraw in the middle of the queue process.

So that's caused a significant amount of delays.

I would say equipment historically hasn't always been the limiting factor.

Now, you look at breakers and transformers, there are some very long lead times for those components now.

But just the sheer amount of projects and the way the queue process was designed 10 years ago, even 20 years ago, and how it's continued to exist versus how it actually functions, they broke it essentially.

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