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Scott County, Illinois

Scott County, Illinois has 10 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 173 MW and 4 planned projects totaling 1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 1 GW across 4 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
10
power projects, planned and operating
1GW
planned generation, 4 projects
173MW
operating generation, 6 natural gas projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Scott County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Scott no data centers Pike no data centers Morgan no data centers Greene
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

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5.8times

more planned than operating generation in Scott County. 4 projects in the queue would add 1 GW to the 173 MW operating today.

Operating generation173 MW
Planned generation1 GW

Technology mix

10 projects, 1.2 GW planned and operating

Solar1 GW4 projects, 85%
Natural Gas173 MW6 projects, 15%
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Power generation in the county

6 plants operate inside Scott County, 173 MW of natural gas. The queue adds 1 GW across 4 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Scott County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 1 GW 4 projects
Natural GasOperating 173 MW 6 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned41,001.8
Natural GasOperating6173
Operating: 173 MW. Planned: 1 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.2 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
02505007501k 169 2028 2029 833 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20281168.8
202900
20303833
No planned project is past its listed year

Scott County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Morgan County has the most operating generation among them, 182.9 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Morgan County 0
0
183
534 0x
Scott County this page 0
0
173
1,002 0x
Pike County 0
0
78
101 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 Scott County

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