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Madera County, California

Madera County, California has 53 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 48 operating plants totaling 508.8 MW and 5 planned projects totaling 726.9 MW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 523 MW across 4 projects.

Data as of Grid region: California ISO (CAISO)Refreshed monthly
53
power projects, planned and operating
726.9MW
planned generation, 5 projects
508.8MW
operating generation, 48 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Madera County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Fresno no data centers Tuolumne no data centers Madera no data centers Merced no data centers Mariposa Mono 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

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1.4times

more planned than operating generation in Madera County. 5 projects in the queue would add 726.9 MW to the 508.8 MW operating today.

Operating generation508.8 MW
Planned generation726.9 MW

Technology mix

53 projects, 1.2 GW planned and operating

Battery Storage523 MW4 projects, 42%
Solar336.9 MW19 projects, 27%
Hydro311.7 MW11 projects, 25%
2 other technologies64.1 MW19 projects, 5%
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Power generation in the county

48 plants operate inside Madera County, 508.8 MW. The queue adds 726.9 MW across 5 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Madera County

OperatingPlanned
Battery StorageOperating 0.8 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 522.2 MW 3 projects
SolarOperating 132.2 MW 17 projects
SolarPlanned 204.7 MW 2 projects
HydroOperating 311.7 MW 11 projects
Natural GasOperating 49.6 MW 16 projects
BiomassOperating 14.5 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Battery StorageOperating10.8
Battery StoragePlanned3522.2
SolarOperating17132.2
SolarPlanned2204.7
HydroOperating11311.7
Natural GasOperating1649.6
BiomassOperating314.5
Operating: 508.8 MW. Planned: 726.9 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.2 GW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0200400600 3 2027 2028 2029 406 2030 318 2031
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202723
202800
202900
20302406.4
20311317.5
No planned project is past its listed year

Madera County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Fresno County has the most operating generation among them, 5.9 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Fresno County 0
0
5,885
21,505 0x
Tuolumne County 0
0
1,166
0 0x
Merced County 0
0
850
6,993 0x
Madera County this page 0
0
509
727 0x
Mono County 0
0
187
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.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

3 projects in Madera County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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2
added to a queue, 3 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 79.6 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Madera County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.

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County: Madera County, CASince June 4, 2026 3 changes
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Every record in Madera County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 53 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Madera County, CAStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 53 records
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