Kankakee County, Illinois
Kankakee County, Illinois has 46 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 33 operating plants totaling 247.5 MW and 13 planned projects totaling 2.1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 1.3 GW across 39 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Kankakee County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 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 Kankakee County. 13 projects in the queue would add 2.1 GW to the 247.5 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Technology mix
46 projects, 2.3 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
33 plants operate inside Kankakee County, 247.5 MW. The queue adds 2.1 GW across 13 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Kankakee County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 28 | 67.1 |
| Solar | Planned | 11 | 1,209 |
| Wind | Operating | 1 | 175 |
| Wind | Planned | 1 | 850 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 5 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 1 | 4.2 |
| Hydro | Operating | 3 | 1.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due. 1 planned project lists no date and is left out.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 125 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
| 2027 | 7 | 585 |
| 2028 | 2 | 1,150 |
| 2029 | 0 | 0 |
| 2030 | 0 | 0 |
| 2031 | 1 | 144 |
Kankakee County against its neighbors
Grundy County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 2.4 GW. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grundy County | 11 | 361 | 0.67x | ||
| Will County | 25 | 7,266 | 0.26x | ||
| Livingston County | 0 | 1,811 | 0x | ||
| Ford County | 0 | 377 | 0x | ||
| Iroquois County | 0 | 993 | 0x | ||
| Kankakee County this page | 0 | 2,064 | 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
13 projects in Kankakee County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Kankakee County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 13 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 Kankakee County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 46 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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