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Wayne County, North Carolina

Wayne County, North Carolina has 42 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 41 operating plants totaling 2.2 GW and 1 planned project totaling 80 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 2 GW across 9 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy Progress EastRefreshed monthly
42
power projects, planned and operating
80MW
planned generation, 1 project
2.2GW
operating generation, 41 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Wayne 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.

Lenoir no data centers Wayne no data centers Greene no data centers Johnston no data centers Sampson no data centers Wilson no data centers Duplin 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
4%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 80 MW planned across 1 project against 2.2 GW operating.

Operating generation2.2 GW
Planned generation80 MW

Technology mix

42 projects, 2.3 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas2 GW9 projects, 91%
Solar210.7 MW32 projects, 9%
Battery Storage2.5 MW1 project, 0%
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Power generation in the county

41 plants operate inside Wayne County, 2.2 GW. The queue adds 80 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Wayne County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 2 GW 9 projects
SolarOperating 130.7 MW 31 projects
SolarPlanned 80 MW 1 project
Battery StorageOperating 2.5 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating92,047.7
SolarOperating31130.7
SolarPlanned180
Battery StorageOperating12.5
Operating: 2.2 GW. Planned: 80 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 2.3 GW.
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 80 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2027180
No planned project is past its listed year

Wayne County against its neighbors

None of the 6 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Duplin County has the most operating generation among them, 194.9 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Wayne County this page 0
0
2,181
80 0x
Duplin County 0
0
195
123 0x
Lenoir County 0
0
165
0 0x
Wilson County 0
0
131
20 0x
Johnston County 0
0
112
73 0x
Sampson County 0
0
50
0 0x
Greene County 0
0
27
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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Every record in Wayne County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 42 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Wayne County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 42 records
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