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Baraga County, Michigan

Baraga County, Michigan has 8 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 80.6 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 56.7 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 113.1 MW across 5 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
8
power projects, planned and operating
56.7MW
planned generation, 2 projects
80.6MW
operating generation, 6 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Baraga County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Baraga no data centers Houghton Iron no data centers Marquette 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
70%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 56.7 MW planned across 2 projects against 80.6 MW operating, 2 of the planned projects already late.

Operating generation80.6 MW
Planned generation56.7 MW

Technology mix

8 projects, 137.3 MW planned and operating

Natural Gas113.1 MW5 projects, 82%
Biomass22 MW1 project, 16%
Hydro2.2 MW2 projects, 2%
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Power generation in the county

6 plants operate inside Baraga County, 80.6 MW. The queue adds 56.7 MW across 2 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Baraga County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 56.4 MW 3 projects
Natural GasPlanned 56.7 MW 2 projects
BiomassOperating 22 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 2.2 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating356.4
Natural GasPlanned256.7
BiomassOperating122
HydroOperating22.2
Operating: 80.6 MW. Planned: 56.7 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 137.3 MW.
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
0204060 55 2018 2 2019
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2018154.9
201911.8
2 projects, 56.7 MW, were due before 2026

Baraga County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Marquette County has the most operating generation among them, 223.5 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Marquette County 0
0
224
445 0x
Baraga County this page 0
0
81
57 0x
Iron County 0
0
27
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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Every record in Baraga County

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