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Ford County, Kansas

Ford County, Kansas has 15 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 9 operating plants totaling 1.5 GW and 6 planned projects totaling 879 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 1.7 GW across 9 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
15
power projects, planned and operating
879MW
planned generation, 6 projects
1.5GW
operating generation, 9 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Ford County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Edwards no data centers Ford no data centers Gray no data centers Kiowa no data centers Hodgeman no data centers Clark no data centers Meade 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
59%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 879 MW planned across 6 projects against 1.5 GW operating.

Operating generation1.5 GW
Planned generation879 MW

Technology mix

15 projects, 2.4 GW planned and operating

Wind1.7 GW9 projects, 71%
Solar400 MW3 projects, 17%
Natural Gas149 MW1 project, 6%
One other technology125 MW2 projects, 5%
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Power generation in the county

9 plants operate inside Ford County, 1.5 GW. The queue adds 879 MW across 6 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Ford County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 1.2 GW 7 projects
WindPlanned 504 MW 2 projects
SolarOperating 150 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 250 MW 2 projects
Natural GasOperating 149 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 125 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating71,180.8
WindPlanned2504
SolarOperating1150
SolarPlanned2250
Natural GasOperating1149
Battery StoragePlanned2125
Operating: 1.5 GW. Planned: 879 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 2.4 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
0200400600 504 2027 275 2028 2029 100 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20272504
20283275
202900
20301100
No planned project is past its listed year

Ford County against its neighbors

None of the 6 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Clark County has the most operating generation among them, 604.4 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Ford County this page 0
0
1,480
879 0x
Clark County 0
0
604
0 0x
Gray County 0
0
508
0 0x
Kiowa County 0
0
118
0 0x
Meade County 0
0
8
0 0x
Hodgeman County 0
0
3
1,803 0x
Edwards County 0
0
0
345 no operating MW

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

3 projects in Ford County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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2
added to a queue, 327 MW
1
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 150 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Ford County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.

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County: Ford County, KSSince June 4, 2026 3 changes
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Every record in Ford County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 15 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Ford County, KSStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 15 records
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