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Boone County, Illinois

Boone County, Illinois has 12 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 9 operating plants totaling 17.5 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 76.1 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 93.6 MW across 12 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
12
power projects, planned and operating
76.1MW
planned generation, 3 projects
17.5MW
operating generation, 9 solar projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Boone 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.

Winnebago 0 MW DeKalb 244 MW McHenry no data centers Boone 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

Headline finding
4.3times

more planned than operating generation in Boone County. 3 projects in the queue would add 76.1 MW to the 17.5 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation17.5 MW
Planned generation76.1 MW

Technology mix

12 projects, 93.6 MW planned and operating

Solar93.6 MW12 projects, 100%
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Power generation in the county

9 plants operate inside Boone County, 17.5 MW of solar. The queue adds 76.1 MW across 3 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Boone County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 17.5 MW 9 projects
SolarPlanned 76.1 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating917.5
SolarPlanned376.1
Operating: 17.5 MW. Planned: 76.1 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 93.6 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
0204060 Snapshot year 59 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 18 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2022158.6
202300
202400
202500
202600
2027217.5
1 project, 58.6 MW, was due before 2026

Boone County against its neighbors

DeKalb County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 244 MW. 3 of the 3 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
DeKalb County 7
244
306
966 0.8x
Winnebago County 1
0
520
1,135 0x
McHenry County 0
0
89
2,017 0x
Boone County this page 0
0
18
76 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 Boone County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 5 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Boone County

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

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County: Boone County, ILSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Boone County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 12 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Boone County, ILStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 12 records
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