Buncombe County, North Carolina
Buncombe County, North Carolina has 16 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 13 operating plants totaling 1 GW and 3 planned projects totaling 57.3 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1 GW across 6 projects.
Buncombe County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 57.3 MW planned across 3 projects against 1 GW operating.
Technology mix
16 projects, 1.1 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
13 plants operate inside Buncombe County, 1 GW. The queue adds 57.3 MW across 3 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Buncombe County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 6 | 1,011.5 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 8.8 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 2 | 47.8 |
| Solar | Operating | 3 | 10.1 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 9.5 |
| Hydro | Operating | 3 | 2.4 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 57.3 |
Buncombe County against its neighbors
Rutherford County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 105 MW. 4 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford County | 3 | 60 | 0.83x | ||
| Buncombe County this page | 0 | 57 | 0x | ||
| Haywood County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Madison County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Henderson County | 0 | 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.
5 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
3 projects in Buncombe County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Buncombe County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Buncombe County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 16 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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