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Highlands County, Florida

Highlands County, Florida has 4 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 62.3 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 149.8 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 194.8 MW across 3 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy FloridaRefreshed monthly
4
power projects, planned and operating
149.8MW
planned generation, 2 projects
62.3MW
operating generation, 2 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Highlands 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.

Glades DeSoto 4 GW Hardee no data centers Okeechobee no data centers Highlands no data centers Polk 300 MW
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
2.4times

more planned than operating generation in Highlands County. 2 projects in the queue would add 149.8 MW to the 62.3 MW operating today.

Operating generation62.3 MW
Planned generation149.8 MW

Technology mix

4 projects, 212.1 MW planned and operating

Solar194.8 MW3 projects, 92%
Battery Storage17.3 MW1 project, 8%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Highlands County, 62.3 MW of solar and battery storage. The queue adds 149.8 MW across 2 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Highlands County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 45 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 149.8 MW 2 projects
Battery StorageOperating 17.3 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating145
SolarPlanned2149.8
Battery StorageOperating117.3
Operating: 62.3 MW. Planned: 149.8 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 212.1 MW.
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
020406080 Snapshot year 75 2026 75 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2026174.9
2027174.9
No planned project is past its listed year

Highlands County against its neighbors

DeSoto County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 4 GW. 3 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
DeSoto County 1
4,000
625
149 6.4x
Polk County 3
300
6,676
115 0.04x
Okeechobee County 0
0
2,245
149 0x
Hardee County 0
0
2,201
0 0x
Highlands County this page 0
0
62
150 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

1 project in Highlands County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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0
added to a queue, 0 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 74.9 MW

Every change in Highlands County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Highlands County, FLSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Highlands County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 4 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Highlands County, FLStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 4 records
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