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Mercer County, Kentucky

Mercer County, Kentucky has 16 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 15 operating plants totaling 1.5 GW and 1 planned project totaling 125 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 980.6 MW across 7 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Louisville Gas & Electric / Kentucky UtilitiesRefreshed monthly
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16
power projects, planned and operating
125MW
planned generation, 1 project
1.5GW
operating generation, 15 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Mercer County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. None of its 6 neighboring counties has a page yet; their figures are in the member database.

Jessamine Boyle Garrard Washington Woodford Mercer no data centers Anderson
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
8%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 125 MW planned across 1 project against 1.5 GW operating.

Operating generation1.5 GW
Planned generation125 MW

Technology mix

16 projects, 1.6 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas980.6 MW7 projects, 61%
Coal464 MW1 project, 29%
Battery Storage125 MW1 project, 8%
2 other technologies43.3 MW7 projects, 3%
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Power generation in the county

15 plants operate inside Mercer County, 1.5 GW. The queue adds 125 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Mercer County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 980.6 MW 7 projects
CoalOperating 464 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 125 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 30.3 MW 6 projects
SolarOperating 13 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating7980.6
CoalOperating1464
Battery StoragePlanned1125
HydroOperating630.3
SolarOperating113
Operating: 1.5 GW. Planned: 125 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.6 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
050100150 125 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20271125
No planned project is past its listed year

Every record in Mercer County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 16 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Mercer County, KYStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 16 records
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