OTAY MESA SWITCHYARD

SAN DIEGO (CA) · SDGE · node key OTAY MESA · CAISO run date 2026-10-12

Seven questions a developer, lender or counsel asks before filing here. Every figure is a CAISO row; Not public marks what the public files cannot answer and where to get it. Definitions: methodology.

Can you get in?

No official Cluster 16 availability statement names this POI. Absence of a statement is not availability.

Not public: per-constraint transmission headroom at this POI — CAISO's cluster study reports (RIMS login).

Not on this site yet: the zonal transmission-capability table CAISO publishes for cluster scoring — public; the join is planned.

Who is ahead of you?

550 MW (n=2)

queued ahead of a new request (legacy + C15)

300 MW (n=1)

with an executed interconnection agreement · public report; C15 has no IA yet

1,201 MW (n=6)

operating at this node

0 MW

Cluster 15 requests seeking full capacity

Not public: who the interconnection customers are (the queue) — CAISO's public files carry project names only; the projects table below is the full public record. EIA-860 names the owners of what already operates nearby, not of what is queued.

Do projects leave after seeing the costs?

2,033 MW (n=8)

received Phase II / Facilities Study results here · any sheet, public report

300 MW (n=1)

of that, withdrew with results in hand

0.15 (n=8)

Phase II attrition (MW share)

Not public: the network upgrade cost allocated to a project here — Phase I / Phase II study reports, served through RIMS. Ask the incumbent developer or request the report; nothing public reconstructs it.

Will you be deliverable?

550 MW (n=2)

2025 TPD requested at this node

0 MW

allocated

250 MW

refused at 0 % — contracted / shortlisted (groups A+B)

300 MW

refused at 0 % — no PPA (group D)

0 / 0

2024 cycle: projects given full / partial capacity

A 0 % in group D is the expected result for an uncontracted project; a 0 % in group A or B is a contracted project that did not get deliverability. Rows are joined through all three sheets, so a request whose project has since withdrawn still appears. CAISO states no reason.

Will the power be worth anything here?

Local Capacity Area: San Diego-Imperial Valley Final 2027 LCT Report [2026-04-29]

Not on this site yet: day-ahead price history at this POI — CAISO OASIS publishes it; it is shown only for a pricing node confirmed by hand in data/poi_pnodes.csv, and this one is not confirmed yet.

Will the land pass intake?

Intake scoring under the 2023 IPE rewards site control, permitting progress and system need before study begins. Parcel, zoning, Williamson Act and CEC exclusion screens run for Kings and Kern counties (caiso-siting parcels, layers screen); results are in outputs/parcels_*.md for the nodes they were run on and are not yet rendered per node here.

Not public: landowner willingness and option terms — county assessor parcels give ownership class, not intent; owner names are withheld on purpose.

How long, and who gave up?

1,000 MW (n=3)

withdrawn since 2022 (both reports)

1,000 MW

of that, storage

1.25 (n=11)

storage churn · withdrawn storage ÷ queued + operating storage

n/a (n=0)

Cluster 15 survival · active ÷ (active + withdrawn)

2,358 MW (n=14)

all-time withdrawn since 2006 · mostly wind/solar-era; colour, not signal

2030-06-25 to 2035-02-05

current on-line dates of active projects

Cluster-level time-to-withdrawal curves are on the Survival page; they compare process regimes, not only nodes.

Projects at this node (22)

Both reports. cod = current on-line date (public report) or proposed on-line date (Cluster 15). ia_status exists only in the public report. Cluster 15 deliverability is requested, not allocated.

project_name	queue_position	sheet_status	cluster	net_mw	storage_mw	deliverability	ia_status	cod	withdrawn_date
EAST FIELD ENERGY STORAGE	1810	ACTIVE	C13	300	300	ENERGY ONLY	EXECUTED	2030-06-25
GATEWAY ENERGY STORAGE 2	2185	ACTIVE	C14	250	250	ENERGY ONLY		2035-02-05
OTAY MESA GENERATING PROJECT	1A	COMPLETED	PRE- AMEND. 39	550	0		EXECUTED
PIO PICO ENERGY CENTER	574	COMPLETED	C02	308	0	FULL CAPACITY	EXECUTED
GATEWAY ENERGY STORAGE	1170	COMPLETED	C08	250	250	FULL CAPACITY	EXECUTED
OTAY MESA	14	COMPLETED	AMEND 39	65	0		EXECUTED
PIO PICO PLUS	1348	COMPLETED	ISP	18	0	FULL CAPACITY	EXECUTED
PIO PICO CAPACITY INCREASE (FKA PIO PICO ENERGY CENTER 2)	1058	COMPLETED	C07	10	0	FULL CAPACITY	EXECUTED
CHARGER STORAGE	2174	WITHDRAWN	C14	600	600	FULL CAPACITY		2025-10-30	2022-12-29
CPV CALIFORNIA V	197	WITHDRAWN	SERIAL LGIP	315	0			2011-12-01	2007-12-03
CARGO STORAGE	2180	WITHDRAWN	C14	300	300	ENERGY ONLY		2036-05-05	2026-06-01
CALPEAK BORDER OM 2	957	WITHDRAWN	C06	205	0	FULL CAPACITY		2017-06-01	2014-03-20
GATEWAY ENERGY STORAGE 2	1290	WITHDRAWN	C09	201	200	FULL CAPACITY		2019-08-01	2016-07-22
OTAY MESA BESS	1181	WITHDRAWN	C08	200	200	FULL CAPACITY		2018-01-01	2015-07-22
PIO PICO 2	969	WITHDRAWN	C06	110	0	FULL CAPACITY		2017-04-01	2014-05-09
HARVEST ENERGY STORAGE PROJECT (FKA OTAY MESA MSS)	1172	WITHDRAWN	C08	110	110	FULL CAPACITY		2019-11-30	2015-12-08
PIO PICO UNIT 4	1185	WITHDRAWN	C08	110	0	FULL CAPACITY		2018-12-15	2015-07-08
LA FUENTE ENERGY STORAGE	2189	WITHDRAWN	C14	100	100	FULL CAPACITY		2024-06-01	2022-12-18
OTAY MESA ENERGY CENTER AGP	1057	WITHDRAWN	C07	35	0	FULL CAPACITY		2016-05-01	2015-03-24
OTAY MESA ENERGY CENTER EXPANSION	1816	WITHDRAWN	C13	26	0	FULL CAPACITY		2022-05-01	2021-03-17
MARIA PICO ENERGY STORAGE CENTER	1176	WITHDRAWN	C08	25	25	FULL CAPACITY		2018-07-31	2015-07-08
OTAY MESA ENERGY CENTER UPGRADE	739	WITHDRAWN	C04	20	0	FULL CAPACITY		2013-03-07	2012-03-22

TPD allocation requests at this node (2)

CAISO Transmission Plan Deliverability allocation results, joined on queue position through all three sheets of the public report (a request whose project has since withdrawn still appears). 2024 rows carry no MW. Groups: A = executed power purchase agreement requiring FCDS, or an LSE serving its own load; B = shortlisted for, or actively negotiating, a power purchase agreement; C = already in commercial operation for the capacity seeking TP deliverability; D = no PPA; electing the Section 8.9.2.3 (financial-security) path.

tpd_year	queue_id	project_name	allocation_group	mw_requested	allocation_pct	mw_allocated	status
2025	2185	GATEWAY ENERGY STORAGE 2	B	250	0%	0	NONE
2025	2180	CARGO STORAGE	D	300	0%	0	NONE

Geocode provenance

Position is approximate or unknown (county-centroid): position unknown; placed at the median of located nodes in the county.

geo_method: county-centroid
geo_score: 0.30
osm_name: median of located nodes in CA SAN DIEGO
lat, lon: 32.90258, -117.11674

All metrics

metric	value	definition
`legacy_active_mw`	550	active MW in the public report (C14 and earlier)
`c15_active_mw`	0	active MW in the Cluster 15 report
`operating_mw`	1,201	completed MW in the public report
`pipeline_storage_mw`	550	storage MW inside legacy_active_mw + c15_active_mw
`operating_storage_mw`	250	storage MW inside operating_mw (completed, public report)
`wd_recent_mw`	1,000	withdrawn in the last 5 years (both reports)
`wd_recent_storage_mw`	1,000	storage MW of those rows — each project's storage components capped at its net-to-grid figure; a handful of filings report net-to-grid as 0 and keep the component MW, so this can exceed the row above at 3 nodes.
`wd_post_phase2_mw`	300	withdrew AFTER Phase II / Facilities Study results (public report only)
`p2_reached_mw`	2,033	MW of projects that received Phase II / Facilities Study results here (public report, any sheet)
`p2_withdrawn_mw`	300	of those, MW that then withdrew (== wd_post_phase2_mw)
`p2_attrition`	0.15	p2_withdrawn_mw / p2_reached_mw — share of studied MW that left with results in hand
`committed_mw`	300	ACTIVE MW holding an executed interconnection agreement (public report)
`churn_n`	11	projects behind storage_churn (withdrawn recent + queued + operating)
`c15_n`	0	projects behind c15_survival
`p2_n`	8	projects behind p2_attrition
`eia_plants`	0	operable EIA-860 plants within 5 km of the node's mapped position (positioned nodes only)
`eia_nameplate_mw`	0	their nameplate MW, all technologies (EIA-860 Generator file, Operable sheet)
`eia_storage_mwh`	0	battery energy capacity among them (EIA-860 Energy Storage file), as reported
`eia_storage_1h_mw`		storage MW at units whose reported MWh is no more than their MW (one hour or less); shown with 'duration not established' because the value may reflect how the form was filled
`eia_proposed_mw`	0	nameplate MW in EIA-860's Proposed sheet within the same radius (planned / under construction)
`wd_alltime_mw`	2,358	every withdrawn MW since 2006 (includes dead wind/solar-era projects)
`storage_churn`	1.25	wd_recent_storage_mw / (active + operating storage MW) — the one to quote
`churn_alltime`	1.35	wd_alltime_mw / (pipeline + operating MW) — historical color only
`c15_survival`	n/a	c15_active / (c15_active + c15_withdrawn)
`c15_fcds_req_mw`	0	C15 active MW that requested Full Capacity Deliverability Status (requested, not allocated)
`tpd25_projects`	2	projects at the node that sought TPD in CAISO's 2025 allocation cycle
`tpd25_req_mw`	550	MW at the node that sought TPD in CAISO's 2025 allocation cycle
`tpd25_alloc_mw`	0	MW allocated in that cycle (requested × allocation %)
`tpd25_denied_mw`	550	MW requested by rows that received 0 %
`tpd25_unalloc_mw`	550	requested minus allocated: MW refused outright PLUS the remainder left by partial allocations — quote this for 'what the developer did not get'
`tpd25_unknown_mw`	0	MW requested by rows with no allocation percentage in the file; 0 today
`tpd25_req_A_mw`	0	of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group A: executed PPA (or LSE own load)
`tpd25_req_B_mw`	250	of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group B: shortlisted / negotiating a PPA
`tpd25_req_C_mw`	0	of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group C: already in commercial operation
`tpd25_req_D_mw`	300	of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group D: no PPA, Section 8.9.2.3 path
`tpd25_denied_A_mw`	0	of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group A
`tpd25_denied_B_mw`	250	of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group B
`tpd25_denied_C_mw`	0	of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group C
`tpd25_denied_D_mw`	300	of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group D
`tpd25_denied_ppa_mw`	250	refused MW in groups A + B: contracted or shortlisted projects that did not get deliverability; the refusal that matters
`tpd24_fcdsa_projects`	0	projects at the node allocated Full Capacity in the 2024 cycle
`lcr_status`	in San Diego-Imperial Valley	CAISO Local Capacity Area (Resource Adequacy geography): 'in <area>' or 'outside <area>' as the LCT report's boundary lists state it; blank = not encoded, never 'outside every area'
`lcr_sub_area`		sub-area / load pocket within that area, when the LCT report delineates it
`wdat_active_projects`	0	active WDAT requests at the same substation (WDAT = distribution-level queue at the same substation, PG&E file today; not CAISO deliverability)
`wdat_active_mw`	0	MW of active WDAT (distribution-level) requests at the same substation (PG&E file today)
`wdat_active_storage_mw`	0	storage MW attributed from wdat_active_mw — an assumption: the PG&E file publishes one MW figure per request, so storage-only requests count in full and solar+storage requests count at half (160 of 1,011 active requests carry storage; 362 of their 479 MW is attributed as storage).
`wdat_inservice_mw`	0	WDAT MW already in service at that substation
`wdat_withdrawn_mw`	0	WDAT MW withdrawn at that substation (all-time in the file)
`wdat_ft_over_cap_n`	0	active Fast Track requests above the 5 MW Fast Track ceiling — held out of wdat_active_*
`wdat_ft_over_cap_mw`	0	MW of those held-out rows, as posted; cause not established

No figure on this site states a cause. CAISO files carry no withdrawal reason beyond "IC Request".

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