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Quay County, New Mexico

Quay County, New Mexico has 10 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 409.4 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 36.8 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 393.2 MW across 7 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
10
power projects, planned and operating
36.8MW
planned generation, 2 projects
409.4MW
operating generation, 8 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Quay County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 7 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Union De Baca San Miguel no data centers Quay no data centers Curry no data centers Harding Guadalupe Roosevelt 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
9%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 36.8 MW planned across 2 projects against 409.4 MW operating, 2 of the planned projects already late.

Operating generation409.4 MW
Planned generation36.8 MW

Technology mix

10 projects, 446.2 MW planned and operating

Wind393.2 MW7 projects, 88%
Oil27 MW1 project, 6%
Solar25 MW1 project, 6%
One other technology1 MW1 project, 0%
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Power generation in the county

8 plants operate inside Quay County, 409.4 MW. The queue adds 36.8 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 Quay County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 356.4 MW 5 projects
WindPlanned 36.8 MW 2 projects
OilOperating 27 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 25 MW 1 project
Battery StorageOperating 1 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating5356.4
WindPlanned236.8
OilOperating127
SolarOperating125
Battery StorageOperating11
Operating: 409.4 MW. Planned: 36.8 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 446.2 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
010203040 37 2014
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2014236.8
2 projects, 36.8 MW, were due before 2026

Quay County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Roosevelt County has the most operating generation among them, 942 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Roosevelt County 0
0
942
2,350 0x
Curry County 0
0
573
0 0x
Quay County this page 0
0
409
37 0x
San Miguel County 0
0
32
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 Quay 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, 36.8 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Quay County

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

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County: Quay County, NMSince June 4, 2026 2 changes
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Every record in Quay County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 10 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Quay County, NMStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 10 records
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