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Pottawatomie County, Kansas

Pottawatomie County, Kansas has 19 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 17 operating plants totaling 2.2 GW and 2 planned projects totaling 922.8 MW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 2.2 GW across 3 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
19
power projects, planned and operating
922.8MW
planned generation, 2 projects
2.2GW
operating generation, 17 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Pottawatomie County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Jackson no data centers Pottawatomie no data centers Shawnee 508 MW Marshall Nemaha no data centers Wabaunsee Riley 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
42%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 922.8 MW planned across 2 projects against 2.2 GW operating.

Operating generation2.2 GW
Planned generation922.8 MW

Technology mix

19 projects, 3.1 GW planned and operating

Coal2.2 GW3 projects, 69%
Natural Gas736.4 MW10 projects, 24%
Solar202.6 MW2 projects, 7%
One other technology12 MW4 projects, 0%
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Power generation in the county

17 plants operate inside Pottawatomie County, 2.2 GW. The queue adds 922.8 MW across 2 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Pottawatomie County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 2.2 GW 3 projects
Natural GasOperating 15.2 MW 9 projects
Natural GasPlanned 721.2 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 1 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 201.6 MW 1 project
OilOperating 12 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating32,160
Natural GasOperating915.2
Natural GasPlanned1721.2
SolarOperating11
SolarPlanned1201.6
OilOperating412
Operating: 2.2 GW. Planned: 922.8 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 3.1 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.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0200400600800 202 2031 721 2032
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20311201.6
20321721.2
No planned project is past its listed year

Pottawatomie County against its neighbors

Shawnee County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 508 MW. 3 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Shawnee County 10
508
8
270 62x
Pottawatomie County this page 0
0
2,188
923 0x
Nemaha County 0
0
322
0 0x
Jackson County 0
0
22
300 0x
Riley County 0
0
4
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.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

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

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added to a queue, 0 MW
4
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 12 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Pottawatomie County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 4 changes.

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County: Pottawatomie County, KSSince June 4, 2026 4 changes
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Every record in Pottawatomie County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 19 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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