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Johnston County, North Carolina

Johnston County, North Carolina has 32 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 31 operating plants totaling 112.1 MW and 1 planned project totaling 73 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 183.5 MW across 31 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy Progress EastRefreshed monthly
32
power projects, planned and operating
73MW
planned generation, 1 project
112.1MW
operating generation, 31 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Johnston County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Wayne no data centers Johnston no data centers Sampson no data centers Harnett no data centers Nash no data centers Wilson no data centers Wake 11 MW
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
65%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 73 MW planned across 1 project against 112.1 MW operating.

Operating generation112.1 MW
Planned generation73 MW

Technology mix

32 projects, 185.1 MW planned and operating

Solar183.5 MW31 projects, 99%
Landfill Gas1.6 MW1 project, 1%
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Power generation in the county

31 plants operate inside Johnston County, 112.1 MW of solar and landfill gas. The queue adds 73 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Johnston County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 110.5 MW 30 projects
SolarPlanned 73 MW 1 project
Landfill GasOperating 1.6 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating30110.5
SolarPlanned173
Landfill GasOperating11.6
Operating: 112.1 MW. Planned: 73 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 185.1 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
020406080 73 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2027173
No planned project is past its listed year

Johnston County against its neighbors

Wake County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 11 MW. 6 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Wake County 2
11
1,108
56 0.01x
Wayne County 0
0
2,181
80 0x
Nash County 0
0
379
0 0x
Wilson County 0
0
131
20 0x
Johnston County this page 0
0
112
73 0x
Harnett County 0
0
57
0 0x
Sampson County 0
0
50
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.

7 counties shown

Every record in Johnston County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 32 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Johnston County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 32 records
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