CAISO node intelligence

RECTOR SUBSTATION

TULARE (CA) · SCE · node key RECTOR · 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?

350 MW (n=2)
queued ahead of a new request (legacy + C15)
0 MW (n=0)
with an executed interconnection agreement · public report; C15 has no IA yet
0 MW (n=0)
operating at this node
0 MW
Cluster 15 requests seeking full capacity
Already operating within 5 km (EIA-860): 1 plant; 3 MW nameplate; oldest unit 2024. Technology: Solar Photovoltaic 3. Operators: Dimension Energy LLC. Joined by distance to this node's mapped position, not by point of interconnection: a plant on a long gen-tie lands on the nearest substation. Corporate names from a federal filing.
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?

600 MW (n=3)
received Phase II / Facilities Study results here · any sheet, public report
250 MW (n=1)
of that, withdrew with results in hand
0.42 (n=3)
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
350 MW
allocated
0 MW
refused at 0 % — contracted / shortlisted (groups A+B)
200 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 Rows are joined through all three sheets, so a request whose project has since withdrawn still appears.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?

The Local Capacity Technical Report does not name this substation on any area boundary: not encoded, which is not the same as outside every area.

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?

650 MW (n=2)
withdrawn since 2022 (both reports)
650 MW
of that, storage
1.86 (n=4)
storage churn · withdrawn storage ÷ queued + operating storage
n/a (n=0)
Cluster 15 survival · active ÷ (active + withdrawn)
750 MW (n=3)
all-time withdrawn since 2006 · mostly wind/solar-era; colour, not signal
2029-09-26 to 2030-12-26
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 (5)

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_namequeue_positionsheet_statusclusternet_mwstorage_mwdeliverabilityia_statuscodwithdrawn_date
MINERAL KING SOLAR2081ACTIVEC14200200FULL CAPACITY2029-09-26
BOBOR STORAGE2068ACTIVEC14150150FULL CAPACITY2030-12-26
SOLAR FARM ENERGY CENTER2084WITHDRAWNC14400400FULL CAPACITY2026-11-302022-10-31
FOUR CREEKS ENERGY STORAGE2058WITHDRAWNC14250250FULL CAPACITY2030-07-012025-09-09
ROCKY HILL SOLAR1620WITHDRAWNC1210052FULL CAPACITY2023-12-152020-03-11

TPD allocation requests at this node (3)

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_yearqueue_idproject_nameallocation_groupmw_requestedallocation_pctmw_allocatedstatus
20252068BOBOR STORAGED150100%150FCDSA
20252081MINERAL KING SOLARD2000%0NONE
20252081MINERAL KING SOLARD200100%200FCDSA

Geocode provenance

geo_method
exact
geo_score
1.00
osm_name
Rector Substation
lat, lon
36.30381, -119.24516

All metrics

metricvaluedefinition
legacy_active_mw350active MW in the public report (C14 and earlier)
c15_active_mw0active MW in the Cluster 15 report
operating_mw0completed MW in the public report
pipeline_storage_mw350storage MW inside legacy_active_mw + c15_active_mw
operating_storage_mw0storage MW inside operating_mw (completed, public report)
wd_recent_mw650withdrawn in the last 5 years (both reports)
wd_recent_storage_mw650storage 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_mw250withdrew AFTER Phase II / Facilities Study results (public report only)
p2_reached_mw600MW of projects that received Phase II / Facilities Study results here (public report, any sheet)
p2_withdrawn_mw250of those, MW that then withdrew (== wd_post_phase2_mw)
p2_attrition0.42p2_withdrawn_mw / p2_reached_mw — share of studied MW that left with results in hand
committed_mw0ACTIVE MW holding an executed interconnection agreement (public report)
churn_n4projects behind storage_churn (withdrawn recent + queued + operating)
c15_n0projects behind c15_survival
p2_n3projects behind p2_attrition
eia_plants1operable EIA-860 plants within 5 km of the node's mapped position (positioned nodes only)
eia_nameplate_mw3their nameplate MW, all technologies (EIA-860 Generator file, Operable sheet)
eia_storage_mwh0battery energy capacity among them (EIA-860 Energy Storage file), as reported
eia_storage_1h_mw0storage 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_mw0nameplate MW in EIA-860's Proposed sheet within the same radius (planned / under construction)
wd_alltime_mw750every withdrawn MW since 2006 (includes dead wind/solar-era projects)
storage_churn1.86wd_recent_storage_mw / (active + operating storage MW) — the one to quote
churn_alltime2.14wd_alltime_mw / (pipeline + operating MW) — historical color only
c15_survivaln/ac15_active / (c15_active + c15_withdrawn)
c15_fcds_req_mw0C15 active MW that requested Full Capacity Deliverability Status (requested, not allocated)
tpd25_projects2projects at the node that sought TPD in CAISO's 2025 allocation cycle
tpd25_req_mw550MW at the node that sought TPD in CAISO's 2025 allocation cycle
tpd25_alloc_mw350MW allocated in that cycle (requested × allocation %)
tpd25_denied_mw200MW requested by rows that received 0 %
tpd25_unalloc_mw200requested minus allocated: MW refused outright PLUS the remainder left by partial allocations — quote this for 'what the developer did not get'
tpd25_unknown_mw0MW requested by rows with no allocation percentage in the file; 0 today
tpd25_req_A_mw0of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group A: executed PPA (or LSE own load)
tpd25_req_B_mw0of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group B: shortlisted / negotiating a PPA
tpd25_req_C_mw0of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group C: already in commercial operation
tpd25_req_D_mw550of tpd25_req_mw, requested in allocation group D: no PPA, Section 8.9.2.3 path
tpd25_denied_A_mw0of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group A
tpd25_denied_B_mw0of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group B
tpd25_denied_C_mw0of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group C
tpd25_denied_D_mw200of tpd25_denied_mw, refused at 0 % in group D
tpd25_denied_ppa_mw0refused MW in groups A + B: contracted or shortlisted projects that did not get deliverability; the refusal that matters
tpd24_fcdsa_projects0projects at the node allocated Full Capacity in the 2024 cycle
lcr_statusCAISO 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_areasub-area / load pocket within that area, when the LCT report delineates it
wdat_active_projects0active WDAT requests at the same substation (WDAT = distribution-level queue at the same substation, PG&E file today; not CAISO deliverability)
wdat_active_mw0MW of active WDAT (distribution-level) requests at the same substation (PG&E file today)
wdat_active_storage_mw0storage 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_mw0WDAT MW already in service at that substation
wdat_withdrawn_mw0WDAT MW withdrawn at that substation (all-time in the file)
wdat_ft_over_cap_n0active Fast Track requests above the 5 MW Fast Track ceiling — held out of wdat_active_*
wdat_ft_over_cap_mw0MW 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".

Screening tool, not engineering advice. Built from public filings by an engineer who is not a licensed PE. Verify every figure against the source filing named in its row before you rely on it for any decision. No warranty of any kind. Not affiliated with CAISO, EIA, or any utility. No engineering services are offered.