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McKinley County, New Mexico

McKinley County, New Mexico has 6 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 4 operating plants totaling 658 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 140 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 598 MW across 4 projects.

Data as of Grid region: PNM ResourcesRefreshed monthly
6
power projects, planned and operating
140MW
planned generation, 2 projects
658MW
operating generation, 4 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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McKinley County and its neighbors

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

Cibola no data centers McKinley no data centers San Juan no data centers Sandoval 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
21%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 140 MW planned across 2 projects against 658 MW operating.

Operating generation658 MW
Planned generation140 MW

Technology mix

6 projects, 798 MW planned and operating

Solar598 MW4 projects, 75%
Battery Storage200 MW2 projects, 25%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside McKinley County, 658 MW of solar and battery storage. The queue adds 140 MW across 2 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in McKinley County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 508 MW 3 projects
SolarPlanned 90 MW 1 project
Battery StorageOperating 150 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 50 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating3508
SolarPlanned190
Battery StorageOperating1150
Battery StoragePlanned150
Operating: 658 MW. Planned: 140 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 798 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
050100150 140 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20282140
No planned project is past its listed year

McKinley County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. San Juan County has the most operating generation among them, 2.1 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
San Juan County 0
0
2,052
2,089 0x
McKinley County this page 0
0
658
140 0x
Sandoval County 0
0
467
5 0x
Cibola County 0
0
114
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 McKinley County

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County: McKinley County, NMStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 6 records
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