Grid and interconnection
Queue timing, transmission, substations, deliverability, utility obligations, and the gap between announced power and executable service.
Frontier Grid · governed large-load access
Large loads do not connect on announced capacity.
Frontier Grid tracks the rules, caps, queues, financial gates, and physical dependencies that determine whether a large load can actually get onto the system at the required scale and date.
Governed large-load access
The rules that determine whether large loads can actually get onto the system.
A public view of governed access mechanisms across U.S. RTOs, ERCOT, Brazil, and Alberta. The values below come from human-reviewed durable records rather than staging proposals or inferred capacity.
Open Compute IntelligenceCases tracked
9
FERC §206 dockets
6
Latest evidence review
Aug 26, 2026
| Case | Stage | Requested | Connectable | Cap | Next gate | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PJM EL26-67 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 16, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
SPP EL26-68 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 20, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
NYISO EL26-69 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 16, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
MISO EL26-70 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 16, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
CAISO EL26-71 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 16, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
ISO-NE EL26-72 | filed change: yes | — | — | — | Nov 16, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
ERCOT US-ERCOT-BATCH-ZERO | approved change: yes | 438,000 MW | — | — | Aug 31, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
ONS BR-PNAST-2026-S1 | announced change: no | — | — | — | Sep 28, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
AESO CA-AB-AESO-INTERIM | approved change: no | — | 1,200 MW | 1,200 MW | — | Aug 26, 2026 |
“—” means unresolved or not published; it does not mean zero.
7 of 9 records currently carry material_change=yes.
Compute as application
Compute is where governed access becomes most visible.
Governed large-load access is a continuing Frontier Grid practice. Compute is its clearest application because a project can have demand, capital, land, and announced generation while still failing at the access mechanism itself.
Project work follows the full path from grid and interconnection through fuel-backed power, physical deployment, utility obligations, financial gates, equipment, and capital sequencing.
Deployment lens
Power availability is only the beginning of the decision.
The relevant question is whether every critical dependency can support the planned load, operating profile, target date, and downside case.
Fuel-backed power
Generation configuration, implied fuel demand, physical gas delivery, transportation rights, contracts, competing demand, and stress economics.
Physical deployment
Cooling, water, land, equipment, permitting, reliability, construction timing, and the local dependencies that can still govern first power.
Commercial and capital sequencing
Where utility commitments, construction, financing, customer demand, financial gates, and target operating dates fail to align.
Compute intelligence environment
Research, briefs, signals, and private access remain available.
The portal remains the compute research environment. It tracks market and node-level changes; project work applies the same evidence and dependency model to a specific large-load decision.
Public portal layer
Intelligence Preview
Selected nodes, signal summaries, constraint framing, and the public boundary of the compute research system.
Explore previewFree sample brief
PJM and the 2026 Compute Constraint Stack
A source-backed sample of the Frontier Grid lens across interconnection, utility structure, and physical deliverability.
View PJM briefPrivate brief
Missouri Compute Infrastructure Constraint Stack
Analysis of large-load tariff structure, financeability, contractual flexibility, and unresolved delivery risk.
View Missouri briefRecurring research
Monthly Infrastructure Constraint Dispatch
Ongoing coverage of node-level signals, reversals, utility structures, and deployment-relevant constraints.
View Monthly DispatchProject application
Evaluating a data center, power strategy, or large-load corridor?
Bring the planned load, geography, target date, proposed power path, fuel assumptions, physical requirements, and the gates that remain unresolved.