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El Dorado County, California

El Dorado County, California has 24 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 778.6 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Hydro leads with 767.6 MW across 16 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Balancing Authority of Northern CaliforniaRefreshed monthly
24
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
778.6MW
operating generation, 24 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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El Dorado County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Amador 41 MW El Dorado no data centers Alpine Sacramento 109.6 MW Placer no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
778.6MW

of operating generation across 24 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for El Dorado County.

Operating generation778.6 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

24 projects, 778.6 MW planned and operating

Hydro767.6 MW16 projects, 99%
Solar6.8 MW6 projects, 1%
Natural Gas4.2 MW2 projects, 1%
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Power generation in the county

24 plants operate inside El Dorado County, 778.6 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

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Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in El Dorado County

OperatingPlanned
HydroOperating 767.6 MW 16 projects
SolarOperating 6.8 MW 6 projects
Natural GasOperating 4.2 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
HydroOperating16767.6
SolarOperating66.8
Natural GasOperating24.2
Operating: 778.6 MW. Planned: 0 MW. Nothing is in the queue to add to it.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.

El Dorado County against its neighbors

Sacramento County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 109.6 MW. 3 of the 3 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Sacramento County 7
110
1,750
719 0.06x
Amador County 1
41
234
0 0.18x
El Dorado County this page 0
0
779
0 0x
Placer County 0
0
773
1,023 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.

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Every record in El Dorado County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 24 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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