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Russell County, Kansas

Russell County, Kansas has 9 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 51.1 MW and 1 planned project totaling 15 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 40.7 MW across 6 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
9
power projects, planned and operating
15MW
planned generation, 1 project
51.1MW
operating generation, 8 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Russell County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Ellis no data centers Ellsworth Rush no data centers Russell no data centers Osborne no data centers Lincoln no data centers Barton 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
29%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 15 MW planned across 1 project against 51.1 MW operating.

Operating generation51.1 MW
Planned generation15 MW

Technology mix

9 projects, 66.1 MW planned and operating

Natural Gas40.7 MW6 projects, 62%
Solar20.4 MW1 project, 31%
Oil5 MW2 projects, 8%
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Power generation in the county

8 plants operate inside Russell County, 51.1 MW. The queue adds 15 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Russell County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 25.7 MW 5 projects
Natural GasPlanned 15 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 20.4 MW 1 project
OilOperating 5 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating525.7
Natural GasPlanned115
SolarOperating120.4
OilOperating25
Operating: 51.1 MW. Planned: 15 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 66.1 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.

Russell County against its neighbors

None of the 5 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Ellis County has the most operating generation among them, 308 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Ellis County 0
0
308
195 0x
Lincoln County 0
0
258
0 0x
Barton County 0
0
101
0 0x
Rush County 0
0
58
0 0x
Russell County this page 0
0
51
15 0x
Osborne County 0
0
7
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

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

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1
added to a queue, 15 MW
1
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 20 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Russell County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.

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County: Russell County, KSSince June 4, 2026 2 changes
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Every record in Russell County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 9 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Russell County, KSStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 9 records
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