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Orange County, North Carolina

Orange County, North Carolina has 7 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 50 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 28 MW across 1 project.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy CarolinasRefreshed monthly
7
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
50MW
operating generation, 7 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Orange County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Orange no data centers Person 0 MW Durham 5.4 MW Chatham no data centers Caswell no data centers Alamance 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
50MW

of operating generation across 7 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Orange County.

Operating generation50 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

7 projects, 50 MW planned and operating

Coal28 MW1 project, 56%
Solar18 MW4 projects, 36%
Oil4 MW2 projects, 8%
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Power generation in the county

7 plants operate inside Orange County, 50 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Orange County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 28 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 18 MW 4 projects
OilOperating 4 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating128
SolarOperating418
OilOperating24
Operating: 50 MW. Planned: 0 MW. Nothing is in the queue to add to it.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.

Orange County against its neighbors

Durham County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 5.4 MW. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Durham County 1
5
19
0 0.29x
Person County 1
0
3,344
80 0x
Orange County this page 0
0
50
0 0x
Chatham County 0
0
42
0 0x
Alamance County 0
0
33
35 0x
Caswell County 0
0
18
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.

6 counties shown

Every record in Orange County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 7 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Orange County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 7 records
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