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Richland County, South Carolina

Richland County, South Carolina has 16 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 992.5 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 771.8 MW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Dominion Energy South CarolinaRefreshed monthly
16
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
992.5MW
operating generation, 16 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Richland County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Sumter Fairfield no data centers Kershaw 0 MW Newberry Lexington no data centers Richland no data centers Calhoun 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
992.5MW

of operating generation across 16 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Richland County.

Operating generation992.5 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

16 projects, 992.5 MW planned and operating

Coal771.8 MW2 projects, 78%
Biomass109.6 MW2 projects, 11%
Solar73.6 MW1 project, 7%
3 other technologies37.5 MW11 projects, 4%
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Power generation in the county

16 plants operate inside Richland County, 992.5 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

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Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Richland County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 771.8 MW 2 projects
BiomassOperating 109.6 MW 2 projects
SolarOperating 73.6 MW 1 project
Battery StorageOperating 18 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 10.6 MW 7 projects
Landfill GasOperating 8.9 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating2771.8
BiomassOperating2109.6
SolarOperating173.6
Battery StorageOperating118
HydroOperating710.6
Landfill GasOperating38.9
Operating: 992.5 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.

Richland County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Fairfield County has the most operating generation among them, 1.8 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Fairfield County 0
0
1,763
5 0x
Richland County this page 0
0
993
0 0x
Calhoun County 0
0
907
0 0x
Lexington County 0
0
708
0 0x
Kershaw County 1
0
110
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 Richland County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 16 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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