A powerplant that does not exist but the project has put in an application to be connected is not limited by transmission. It's limited primarily by not existing.

Other grids have fixed the problem by kicking out the ghost applications that were never going to get built but were hanging onto their position in the line because that was the closest thing they had to a valuable asset.

But the alleged size of projects in the line regularly gets misrepresented to argue for X or Y change in regulation or just to predict doom.

This author knows this and still argues it:

> We have roughly two grids’ worth of power waiting in line! This doesn’t mean we have that much power built generating electrons today. This capacity in queues is often times projects. Projects that need to prove they have someone to sell to (more often than not the grid) so they can get financed and then built.