Lee County, Illinois
Lee County, Illinois has 48 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 29 operating plants totaling 2.3 GW and 19 planned projects totaling 11.8 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 9.6 GW across 17 projects. 5 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.
Lee 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 Lee County. 19 projects in the queue would add 11.8 GW to the 2.3 GW operating today, and 5 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
48 projects, 14 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
29 plants operate inside Lee County, 2.3 GW. The queue adds 11.8 GW across 19 projects, and 5 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Lee County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 3 | 9 |
| Solar | Planned | 14 | 9,560 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 14 | 1,699.5 |
| Natural Gas | Planned | 2 | 782 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 2 | 1,200 |
| Wind | Operating | 7 | 573.3 |
| Wind | Planned | 1 | 215.4 |
| Hydro | Operating | 5 | 3 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due. 6 planned projects list no date and are left out.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 600 |
| 2024 | 1 | 800 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2,380 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 1 | 215.4 |
| 2028 | 1 | 391 |
| 2029 | 3 | 1,900 |
| 2030 | 0 | 0 |
| 2031 | 3 | 1,300 |
Lee County against its neighbors
DeKalb County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 244 MW. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County | 7 | 966 | 0.8x | ||
| LaSalle County | 0 | 4,642 | 0x | ||
| Ogle County | 0 | 6,210 | 0x | ||
| Lee County this page | 0 | 11,757 | 0x | ||
| Bureau County | 0 | 164 | 0x | ||
| Whiteside County | 0 | 747 | 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
14 projects in Lee County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Lee County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 14 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 Lee 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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