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Randolph County, Illinois

Randolph County, Illinois has 17 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 14 operating plants totaling 1.5 GW and 3 planned projects totaling 417.4 MW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 1.3 GW across 2 projects. 3 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
17
power projects, planned and operating
417.4MW
planned generation, 3 projects
1.5GW
operating generation, 14 projects
3
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Randolph 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.

St Clair no data centers Monroe no data centers Randolph no data centers Washington no data centers Jackson no data centers Perry no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
28%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 417.4 MW planned across 3 projects against 1.5 GW operating, 3 of the planned projects already late.

Operating generation1.5 GW
Planned generation417.4 MW

Technology mix

17 projects, 1.9 GW planned and operating

Coal1.3 GW2 projects, 66%
Solar326.4 MW6 projects, 17%
Hybrid (Other)250 MW1 project, 13%
3 other technologies85.4 MW8 projects, 4%
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Power generation in the county

14 plants operate inside Randolph County, 1.5 GW. The queue adds 417.4 MW across 3 projects, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Randolph County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 1.3 GW 2 projects
SolarOperating 227.4 MW 5 projects
SolarPlanned 99 MW 1 project
Hybrid (Other)Planned 250 MW 1 project
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned 68.4 MW 1 project
OilOperating 15 MW 6 projects
Battery StorageOperating 2 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating21,259.6
SolarOperating5227.4
SolarPlanned199
Hybrid (Other)Planned1250
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned168.4
OilOperating615
Battery StorageOperating12
Operating: 1.5 GW. Planned: 417.4 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.9 GW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0100200300 99 2020 2021 2022 2023 68 2024 250 2025
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2020199
202100
202200
202300
2024168.4
20251250
3 projects, 417.4 MW, were due before 2026

Randolph County against its neighbors

None of the 5 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. St Clair County has the most operating generation among them, 1.8 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
St Clair County 0
0
1,821
655 0x
Randolph County this page 0
0
1,504
417 0x
Perry County 0
0
535
1,718 0x
Monroe County 0
0
38
0 0x
Jackson County 0
0
10
251 0x
Washington County 0
0
5
735 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.

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Every record in Randolph County

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