Placer County, California
Placer County, California has 49 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 42 operating plants totaling 773.2 MW and 7 planned projects totaling 1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 600.2 MW across 5 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Placer County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 5 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
more planned than operating generation in Placer County. 7 projects in the queue would add 1 GW to the 773.2 MW operating today.
Technology mix
49 projects, 1.8 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
42 plants operate inside Placer County, 773.2 MW. The queue adds 1 GW across 7 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Placer County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 2 | 4 |
| Solar | Planned | 3 | 596.2 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 1 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 4 | 427.1 |
| Hydro | Operating | 18 | 410.3 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 7 | 291 |
| Biomass | Operating | 2 | 47.1 |
| Oil | Operating | 6 | 15 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 6 | 4.8 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 518.3 |
| 2027 | 1 | 5 |
| 2028 | 2 | 500 |
Placer County against its neighbors
Sacramento County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 109.6 MW. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento County | 7 | 719 | 0.06x | ||
| Sutter County | 0 | 688 | 0x | ||
| El Dorado County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Placer County this page | 0 | 1,023 | 0x | ||
| Yuba County | 0 | 4 | 0x | ||
| Nevada 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.
6 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
3 projects in Placer County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Placer County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Placer County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 49 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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