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Rock Island County, Illinois

Rock Island County, Illinois has 20 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 13 operating plants totaling 2.7 GW and 7 planned projects totaling 1.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Nuclear leads with 2 GW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
20
power projects, planned and operating
1.4GW
planned generation, 7 projects
2.7GW
operating generation, 13 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Rock Island County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Henry no data centers Mercer no data centers Rock Island no data centers Whiteside 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
51%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 1.4 GW planned across 7 projects against 2.7 GW operating, 2 of the planned projects already late.

Operating generation2.7 GW
Planned generation1.4 GW

Technology mix

20 projects, 4.1 GW planned and operating

Nuclear2 GW2 projects, 49%
Battery Storage995 MW5 projects, 24%
Natural Gas683.2 MW7 projects, 17%
3 other technologies391.6 MW6 projects, 10%
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Power generation in the county

13 plants operate inside Rock Island County, 2.7 GW. The queue adds 1.4 GW across 7 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Rock Island County

OperatingPlanned
NuclearOperating 2 GW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 995 MW 5 projects
Natural GasOperating 683.2 MW 7 projects
SolarPlanned 260 MW 1 project
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned 128 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 3.6 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
NuclearOperating22,018.6
Battery StoragePlanned5995
Natural GasOperating7683.2
SolarPlanned1260
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned1128
HydroOperating43.6
Operating: 2.7 GW. Planned: 1.4 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 4.1 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. 1 planned project lists no date and is left out.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0200400600 Snapshot year 335 2024 128 2025 80 2026 2027 500 2028 2029 260 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20241335
20251128
2026180
202700
20282500
202900
20301260
2 projects, 463 MW, were due before 2026

Rock Island County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Henry County has the most operating generation among them, 550.6 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Rock Island County this page 0
0
2,705
1,383 0x
Henry County 0
0
551
508 0x
Whiteside County 0
0
64
747 0x
Mercer County 0
0
10
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.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Rock Island County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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0
added to a queue, 0 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 300 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Rock Island County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Rock Island County, ILSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Rock Island County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 20 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Rock Island County, ILStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 20 records
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