Butte County, California
Butte County, California has 40 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 1.2 GW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Hydro leads with 1.2 GW across 24 projects. Data as of October 8, 2026.
Butte County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of operating generation across 40 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Butte County.
Technology mix
40 projects, 1.2 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
40 plants operate inside Butte County, 1.2 GW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Butte County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hydro | Operating | 24 | 1,151.5 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 9 | 11.4 |
| Solar | Operating | 5 | 10 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 1 | 2.3 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 0.5 |
Butte County against its neighbors
None of the 6 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Sutter County has the most operating generation among them, 904.5 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butte County this page | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Sutter County | 0 | 688 | 0x | ||
| Colusa County | 0 | 694 | 0x | ||
| Plumas County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Yuba County | 0 | 4 | 0x | ||
| Tehama County | 0 | 5 | 0x | ||
| Glenn County | 0 | 0 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
7 counties shownEvery record in Butte County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 40 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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