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Brown County, South Dakota

Brown County, South Dakota has 7 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 4 operating plants totaling 327.4 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 302 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 330.6 MW across 5 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
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7
power projects, planned and operating
302MW
planned generation, 3 projects
327.4MW
operating generation, 4 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Brown County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. None of its 6 neighboring counties has a page yet; their figures are in the member database.

Marshall Edmunds Spink Faulk Day McPherson Brown 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

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Headline finding
92%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 302 MW planned across 3 projects against 327.4 MW operating.

Operating generation327.4 MW
Planned generation302 MW

Technology mix

7 projects, 629.4 MW planned and operating

Natural Gas330.6 MW5 projects, 53%
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)270 MW1 project, 43%
Oil28.8 MW1 project, 5%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside Brown County, 327.4 MW of natural gas and oil. The queue adds 302 MW across 3 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Brown County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 298.6 MW 3 projects
Natural GasPlanned 32 MW 2 projects
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned 270 MW 1 project
OilOperating 28.8 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating3298.6
Natural GasPlanned232
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned1270
OilOperating128.8
Operating: 327.4 MW. Planned: 302 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 629.4 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
0100200300 Snapshot year 32 2026 270 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2026232
20271270
No planned project is past its listed year

Every record in Brown 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: Brown County, SDStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 7 records
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