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Columbus County, North Carolina

Columbus County, North Carolina has 21 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 20 operating plants totaling 165.9 MW and 1 planned project totaling 25 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 106.9 MW across 19 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy Progress EastRefreshed monthly
21
power projects, planned and operating
25MW
planned generation, 1 project
165.9MW
operating generation, 20 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Columbus County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Bladen no data centers Robeson no data centers Brunswick no data centers Columbus no data centers Pender 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
15%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 25 MW planned across 1 project against 165.9 MW operating.

Operating generation165.9 MW
Planned generation25 MW

Technology mix

21 projects, 190.9 MW planned and operating

Solar106.9 MW19 projects, 56%
Biomass84 MW2 projects, 44%
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Power generation in the county

20 plants operate inside Columbus County, 165.9 MW of solar and biomass. The queue adds 25 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Columbus County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 81.9 MW 18 projects
SolarPlanned 25 MW 1 project
BiomassOperating 84 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating1881.9
SolarPlanned125
BiomassOperating284
Operating: 165.9 MW. Planned: 25 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 190.9 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
0102030 Snapshot year 25 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2026125
No planned project is past its listed year

Columbus County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Brunswick 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
Brunswick County 0
0
2,071
0 0x
Robeson County 0
0
419
108 0x
Bladen County 0
0
372
80 0x
Columbus County this page 0
0
166
25 0x
Pender County 0
0
137
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

1 project in Columbus County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 25 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 Columbus County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Columbus County, NCSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Columbus County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 21 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Columbus County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 21 records
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