Lincoln County, Colorado
Lincoln County, Colorado has 12 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 1 GW and 6 planned projects totaling 1.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 1.3 GW across 6 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Lincoln County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 8 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 Lincoln County. 6 projects in the queue would add 1.4 GW to the 1 GW operating today.
Technology mix
12 projects, 2.5 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
6 plants operate inside Lincoln County, 1 GW of wind and natural gas. The queue adds 1.4 GW across 6 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Lincoln County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Operating | 4 | 852.6 |
| Wind | Planned | 2 | 398.9 |
| Other | Planned | 1 | 500 |
| Solar + Storage (Hybrid) | Planned | 2 | 300 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 250 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 2 | 154.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due. 2 planned projects list no date and are left out.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 2 | 400 |
| 2028 | 2 | 349 |
Lincoln County against its neighbors
El Paso County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 116.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso County | 3 | 1,492 | 0.06x | ||
| Arapahoe County | 5 | 0 | 0.19x | ||
| Kit Carson County | 0 | 3,262 | 0x | ||
| Lincoln County this page | 0 | 1,449 | 0x | ||
| Elbert County | 0 | 722 | 0x | ||
| Cheyenne County | 0 | 887 | 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
2 projects in Lincoln County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Lincoln County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 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 Lincoln County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 12 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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