Santa Barbara County, California
Santa Barbara County, California has 20 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 19 operating plants totaling 362.6 MW and 1 planned project totaling 9.8 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 107.3 MW across 3 projects.
Santa Barbara County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 3 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 the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 9.8 MW planned across 1 project against 362.6 MW operating.
Technology mix
20 projects, 372.4 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
19 plants operate inside Santa Barbara County, 362.6 MW. The queue adds 9.8 MW across 1 project.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Santa Barbara County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 3 | 107.3 |
| Wind | Operating | 1 | 95.3 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 4 | 83 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 9.8 |
| Solar | Operating | 5 | 69.5 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 4 | 5.3 |
| Biomass | Operating | 2 | 2.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 9.8 |
Santa Barbara County against its neighbors
Kern County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 100 MW. 3 of the 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kern County | 1 | 27,842 | 0.01x | ||
| San Luis Obispo County | 0 | 1,709 | 0x | ||
| Ventura County | 0 | 2,061 | 0x | ||
| Santa Barbara County this page | 0 | 10 | 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.
4 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
1 project in Santa Barbara County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Santa Barbara County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.
| 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 Santa Barbara County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 20 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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