Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois has 48 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 37 operating plants totaling 271.8 MW and 11 planned projects totaling 1.3 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 525.5 MW across 20 projects. 3 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.
Champaign 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.
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 Champaign County. 11 projects in the queue would add 1.3 GW to the 271.8 MW operating today, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
48 projects, 1.5 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
37 plants operate inside Champaign County, 271.8 MW. The queue adds 1.3 GW across 11 projects, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Champaign County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 15 | 175.7 |
| Solar | Planned | 5 | 349.8 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 0.3 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 3 | 500 |
| Wind | Operating | 1 | 0.1 |
| Wind | Planned | 2 | 288.4 |
| Solar + Storage (Hybrid) | Planned | 1 | 135 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 12 | 81.3 |
| Oil | Operating | 8 | 14.4 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 100 |
| 2023 | 1 | 150 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 150 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 5 | 443.5 |
| 2028 | 3 | 429.7 |
Champaign County against its neighbors
None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Piatt County has the most operating generation among them, 988 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piatt County | 0 | 476 | 0x | ||
| Ford County | 0 | 377 | 0x | ||
| McLean County | 0 | 2,666 | 0x | ||
| Vermilion County | 0 | 743 | 0x | ||
| Champaign County this page | 0 | 1,273 | 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.
5 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
4 projects in Champaign County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Champaign County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 4 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 Champaign County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 48 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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