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Ward County, North Dakota

Ward County, North Dakota has 5 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 120 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 400 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 320 MW across 4 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
5
power projects, planned and operating
400MW
planned generation, 3 projects
120MW
operating generation, 2 wind projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Ward County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Renville McHenry McLean 300 MW Mountrail Ward no data centers Burke 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

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3.3times

more planned than operating generation in Ward County. 3 projects in the queue would add 400 MW to the 120 MW operating today.

Operating generation120 MW
Planned generation400 MW

Technology mix

5 projects, 520 MW planned and operating

Wind320 MW4 projects, 62%
Battery Storage200 MW1 project, 38%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Ward County, 120 MW of wind. The queue adds 400 MW across 3 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Ward County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 120 MW 2 projects
WindPlanned 200 MW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 200 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating2120
WindPlanned2200
Battery StoragePlanned1200
Operating: 120 MW. Planned: 400 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 520 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
050100150200 200 2028 2029 200 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20281200
202900
20302200
No planned project is past its listed year

Ward County against its neighbors

McLean County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 300 MW. 2 of the 2 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
McLean County 1
300
1,216
400 0.25x
Burke County 0
0
199
270 0x
Ward County this page 0
0
120
400 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 Ward County

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