Macon County, Illinois
Macon County, Illinois has 23 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 15 operating plants totaling 421.5 MW and 8 planned projects totaling 1.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 500 MW across 3 projects.
Macon County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 7 of its 7 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 Macon County. 8 projects in the queue would add 1.4 GW to the 421.5 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Technology mix
23 projects, 1.8 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
15 plants operate inside Macon County, 421.5 MW. The queue adds 1.4 GW across 8 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Macon County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Storage | Planned | 3 | 500 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 1 | 64.8 |
| Natural Gas | Planned | 1 | 340.3 |
| Coal | Operating | 7 | 335 |
| Solar + Storage (Hybrid) | Planned | 1 | 200 |
| Wind | Planned | 1 | 200 |
| Solar | Operating | 4 | 17 |
| Solar | Planned | 2 | 181.5 |
| Oil | Operating | 3 | 4.7 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 200 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 521.8 |
| 2027 | 2 | 200 |
| 2028 | 2 | 500 |
Macon County against its neighbors
Sangamon County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 636 MW. 7 of the 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sangamon County | 4 | 3,429 | 0.48x | ||
| Logan County | 1 | 666 | 0.69x | ||
| DeWitt County | 0 | 185 | 0x | ||
| Christian County | 0 | 2,368 | 0x | ||
| Shelby County | 0 | 1,025 | 0x | ||
| Piatt County | 0 | 476 | 0x | ||
| Macon County this page | 0 | 1,422 | 0x | ||
| Moultrie County | 0 | 0 | 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.
8 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
2 projects in Macon County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Macon County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 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 Macon County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 23 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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