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Orleans County, New York

Orleans County, New York has 17 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 13 operating plants totaling 39 MW and 4 planned projects totaling 335.8 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 243.3 MW across 11 projects.

Data as of Grid region: New York ISO (NYISO)Refreshed monthly
17
power projects, planned and operating
335.8MW
planned generation, 4 projects
39MW
operating generation, 13 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Orleans 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.

Orleans no data centers Monroe no data centers Niagara 2.1 GW Genesee 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
8.6times

more planned than operating generation in Orleans County. 4 projects in the queue would add 335.8 MW to the 39 MW operating today.

Operating generation39 MW
Planned generation335.8 MW

Technology mix

17 projects, 374.8 MW planned and operating

Solar243.3 MW11 projects, 65%
Wind126 MW1 project, 34%
Hydro5.5 MW5 projects, 1%
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Power generation in the county

13 plants operate inside Orleans County, 39 MW of solar and hydro. The queue adds 335.8 MW across 4 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Orleans County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 33.5 MW 8 projects
SolarPlanned 209.8 MW 3 projects
WindPlanned 126 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 5.5 MW 5 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating833.5
SolarPlanned3209.8
WindPlanned1126
HydroOperating55.5
Operating: 39 MW. Planned: 335.8 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 374.8 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
0100200300400 Snapshot year 10 2026 2027 326 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202629.8
202700
20282326
No planned project is past its listed year

Orleans County against its neighbors

Niagara County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 2.1 GW. 3 of the 3 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Niagara County 12
2,084
3,082
1,068 0.68x
Monroe County 0
0
371
104 0x
Genesee County 0
0
148
2,067 0x
Orleans County this page 0
0
39
336 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

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

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2
added to a queue, 9.8 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 126 MW

Every change in Orleans County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.

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County: Orleans County, NYSince June 4, 2026 3 changes
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Every record in Orleans County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 17 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Orleans County, NYStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 17 records
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