Knox County, Illinois
Knox County, Illinois has 13 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 16 MW and 5 planned projects totaling 855 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 500 MW across 2 projects. 2 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.
Knox County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 6 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 Knox County. 5 projects in the queue would add 855 MW to the 16 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
13 projects, 871 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
8 plants operate inside Knox County, 16 MW of solar. The queue adds 855 MW across 5 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Knox County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Planned | 2 | 500 |
| Solar | Operating | 8 | 16 |
| Solar | Planned | 2 | 255 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 100 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 300 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 200 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 1 | 5 |
| 2028 | 2 | 350 |
Knox County against its neighbors
None of the 5 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Henry County has the most operating generation among them, 550.6 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry County | 0 | 508 | 0x | ||
| Fulton County | 0 | 1,721 | 0x | ||
| Stark County | 0 | 500 | 0x | ||
| Peoria County | 0 | 2,111 | 0x | ||
| Knox County this page | 0 | 855 | 0x | ||
| Mercer County | 0 | 488 | 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 shownEvery record in Knox County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 13 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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