McLean County, Illinois
McLean County, Illinois has 26 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 12 operating plants totaling 795.9 MW and 14 planned projects totaling 2.7 GW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 2.2 GW across 11 projects. 4 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.
McLean County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 8 of its 8 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 McLean County. 14 projects in the queue would add 2.7 GW to the 795.9 MW operating today, and 4 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
26 projects, 3.5 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
12 plants operate inside McLean County, 795.9 MW. The queue adds 2.7 GW across 14 projects, and 4 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in McLean County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Operating | 5 | 781.6 |
| Wind | Planned | 6 | 1,400 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 4 | 751 |
| Solar | Operating | 4 | 9.2 |
| Solar | Planned | 4 | 515 |
| Oil | Operating | 3 | 5.1 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 100 |
| 2022 | 1 | 150 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 500 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 10 |
| 2027 | 2 | 10 |
| 2028 | 3 | 796 |
| 2029 | 2 | 850 |
| 2030 | 1 | 250 |
McLean County against its neighbors
Logan County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 500 MW. 8 of the 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logan County | 1 | 666 | 0.69x | ||
| Tazewell County | 0 | 2,568 | 0x | ||
| DeWitt County | 0 | 185 | 0x | ||
| Piatt County | 0 | 476 | 0x | ||
| Livingston County | 0 | 1,811 | 0x | ||
| Ford County | 0 | 377 | 0x | ||
| McLean County this page | 0 | 2,666 | 0x | ||
| Champaign County | 0 | 1,273 | 0x | ||
| Woodford County | 0 | 1,878 | 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.
9 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
8 projects in McLean County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in McLean County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 8 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 McLean County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 26 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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