SageGrid helps developers submit higher-quality interconnection applications — so your team spends less time on projects that will never reach commercial operation.
Nationally, 80% of projects in interconnection queues withdraw before completion. Each one consumes engineering hours, study cycles, and staff attention. FERC Order 2023 introduced cluster studies and commercial readiness deposits to reduce speculative filings — but the queue is still growing.
The problem isn't just volume. It's that developers file without understanding the true cost, timeline, or risk of their interconnection. When reality hits during the study process, they withdraw — and your team has to restudy the entire cluster.
SageGrid gives developers calibrated cost and timeline predictions based on historical project data, substation conditions, and queue characteristics — before they file their interconnection application.
Developers who use SageGrid arrive with realistic expectations. They've already screened out unviable sites, sized their deposits correctly, and understand the study process they're entering. That means fewer surprises, fewer withdrawals, and fewer restudies.
When developers understand the true cost and timeline before filing, they self-select out of projects that won't pencil. Your cluster studies proceed with higher-quality applicants who intend to build.
Every withdrawal mid-study triggers a restudy that consumes engineering resources. Better-informed applicants mean more stable clusters and fewer disrupted study cycles.
Speculative filings — projects filed just to hold queue position — decline when developers can actually evaluate viability beforehand. Your team focuses on real projects, not placeholders.
We don't need access to your systems. We don't compete with your tools. SageGrid operates on publicly available data — interconnection queues, OASIS postings, EIA filings, state PUC records, and historical project outcomes.
| Collaboration Level | What It Looks Like |
|---|---|
| No involvement needed | SageGrid operates on public data. Developers arrive better prepared. You benefit without changing anything. |
| Data partnership | Share anonymized historical study outcomes to improve prediction accuracy for your service territory. Better predictions = better applicants. |
| Co-branded portal | Offer SageGrid's prediction tools through your own interconnection portal. Developers get cost estimates before filing, reducing your intake burden. |
| Reporting & analytics | Receive aggregate insights on developer sentiment, application quality trends, and queue health metrics from SageGrid's platform data. |
SageGrid's founder spent 6+ years in utility operations at NV Energy, working firsthand with the engineering constraints, regulatory requirements, and staffing realities that shape interconnection. That experience is why SageGrid is designed to complement utility workflows — not complicate them.
We also work with senior utility advisors who bring decades of transmission planning and interconnection management experience to our product development and data strategy.
Smaller utilities — munis, co-ops, and companies like Liberty Utilities — often lack the resources to publish detailed queue data or build developer-facing tools. SageGrid can serve as your developer-facing intelligence layer, providing cost estimates and application guidance that your team doesn't have bandwidth to produce.
We're exploring partnerships with utilities that want to offer interconnection intelligence to their applicants without building it themselves.
To be clear about what SageGrid is and isn't:
We provide intelligence that helps developers make better decisions. When they do, everyone benefits — developers waste less capital, utilities process higher-quality applications, and clean energy reaches the grid faster.
We'd welcome a conversation about how SageGrid is helping developers in your service territory — and how we might work together.
We respond to utility inquiries within one business day.
SageGrid is built to complement utility workflows — not complicate them.