Howard County, Iowa
Howard County, Iowa has 6 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 3 operating plants totaling 166.6 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 375 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 540 MW across 5 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Howard 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.
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 Howard County. 3 projects in the queue would add 375 MW to the 166.6 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Technology mix
6 projects, 541.6 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
3 plants operate inside Howard County, 166.6 MW of wind and oil. The queue adds 375 MW across 3 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Howard County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Operating | 2 | 165 |
| Wind | Planned | 3 | 375 |
| Oil | Operating | 1 | 1.6 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 100 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 120 |
| 2027 | 0 | 0 |
| 2028 | 0 | 0 |
| 2029 | 0 | 0 |
| 2030 | 1 | 155 |
Howard County against its neighbors
None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Mitchell County has the most operating generation among them, 526.2 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell County | 0 | 180 | 0x | ||
| Chickasaw County | 0 | 200 | 0x | ||
| Howard County this page | 0 | 375 | 0x | ||
| Winneshiek County | 0 | 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.
4 counties shownEvery record in Howard County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 6 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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