Shelby County, Illinois
Shelby County, Illinois has 17 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 11 operating plants totaling 1.2 GW and 6 planned projects totaling 1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1.2 GW across 11 projects.
Shelby 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
of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 1 GW planned across 6 projects against 1.2 GW operating, 2 of the planned projects already late.
Technology mix
17 projects, 2.2 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
11 plants operate inside Shelby County, 1.2 GW of natural gas. The queue adds 1 GW across 6 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Shelby County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 11 | 1,185.1 |
| Solar | Planned | 3 | 415 |
| Wind | Planned | 1 | 350 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 2 | 260 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 185 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 1 | 250 |
| 2028 | 2 | 390 |
| 2029 | 0 | 0 |
| 2030 | 1 | 200 |
Shelby County against its neighbors
None of the 8 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Christian County has the most operating generation among them, 1.3 GW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian County | 0 | 2,368 | 0x | ||
| Shelby County this page | 0 | 1,025 | 0x | ||
| Macon County | 0 | 1,422 | 0x | ||
| Coles County | 0 | 1,298 | 0x | ||
| Cumberland County | 0 | 760 | 0x | ||
| Fayette County | 0 | 1,198 | 0x | ||
| Montgomery County | 0 | 885 | 0x | ||
| Moultrie County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Effingham County | 1 | 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.
9 counties shownEvery record in Shelby County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 17 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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