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Fulton County, Illinois

Fulton County, Illinois has 9 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 3 operating plants totaling 156.5 MW and 6 planned projects totaling 1.7 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 1.3 GW across 6 projects. 3 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
9
power projects, planned and operating
1.7GW
planned generation, 6 projects
156.5MW
operating generation, 3 solar projects
3
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Fulton County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 7 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Knox no data centers Tazewell no data centers McDonough no data centers Fulton no data centers Mason no data centers Schuyler Warren Peoria 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
11times

more planned than operating generation in Fulton County. 6 projects in the queue would add 1.7 GW to the 156.5 MW operating today, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Operating generation156.5 MW
Planned generation1.7 GW

Technology mix

9 projects, 1.9 GW planned and operating

Solar1.3 GW6 projects, 70%
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)370 MW2 projects, 20%
Battery Storage200 MW1 project, 11%
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Power generation in the county

3 plants operate inside Fulton County, 156.5 MW of solar. The queue adds 1.7 GW across 6 projects, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Fulton County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 156.5 MW 3 projects
SolarPlanned 1.2 GW 3 projects
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned 370 MW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 200 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating3156.5
SolarPlanned31,150.6
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned2370
Battery StoragePlanned1200
Operating: 156.5 MW. Planned: 1.7 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.9 GW.
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
02505007501k Snapshot year 20 2023 821 2024 150 2025 180 2026 2027 350 2028 200 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2023120
20241820.6
20251150
20261180
202700
20281350
20291200
3 projects, 990.6 MW, were due before 2026

Fulton County against its neighbors

None of the 5 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Tazewell County has the most operating generation among them, 1.9 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Tazewell County 0
0
1,898
2,568 0x
Mason County 0
0
412
1,433 0x
McDonough County 0
0
171
225 0x
Fulton County this page 0
0
157
1,721 0x
Peoria County 0
0
47
2,111 0x
Knox County 0
0
16
855 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

3 projects in Fulton County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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added to a queue, 820.6 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 200 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 350 MW

Every change in Fulton County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.

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County: Fulton County, ILSince June 4, 2026 3 changes
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Every record in Fulton County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 9 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Fulton County, ILStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 9 records
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