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Castro County, Texas

Castro County, Texas has 14 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 442.4 MW and 12 planned projects totaling 3.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 1.9 GW across 7 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
14
power projects, planned and operating
3.4GW
planned generation, 12 projects
442.4MW
operating generation, 2 wind projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Castro 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.

Deaf Smith no data centers Hale 888 MW Swisher no data centers Castro no data centers Lamb no data centers Randall no data centers Parmer 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
7.7times

more planned than operating generation in Castro County. 12 projects in the queue would add 3.4 GW to the 442.4 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation442.4 MW
Planned generation3.4 GW

Technology mix

14 projects, 3.8 GW planned and operating

Wind1.9 GW7 projects, 49%
Solar1.4 GW5 projects, 37%
Battery Storage552.6 MW2 projects, 14%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Castro County, 442.4 MW of wind. The queue adds 3.4 GW across 12 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Castro County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 442.4 MW 2 projects
WindPlanned 1.4 GW 5 projects
SolarPlanned 1.4 GW 5 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 552.6 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating2442.4
WindPlanned51,429
SolarPlanned51,409.8
Battery StoragePlanned2552.6
Operating: 442.4 MW. Planned: 3.4 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 3.8 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
05001k1.5k Snapshot year 180 2025 152 2026 355 2027 960 2028 1,444 2029 2030 300 2031
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20251180
20261151.8
20272355
20284960.3
202931,444.3
203000
20311300
1 project, 180 MW, was due before 2026

Castro County against its neighbors

Hale County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 888 MW. 6 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Hale County 7
888
1,445
2,717 0.61x
Lamb County 0
0
1,476
150 0x
Swisher County 0
0
1,100
2,780 0x
Deaf Smith County 0
0
710
8,280 0x
Parmer County 0
0
495
565 0x
Castro County this page 0
0
442
3,391 0x
Randall County 0
0
167
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.

7 counties shown

What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Castro County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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0
added to a queue, 0 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 301 MW

Every change in Castro County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Castro County, TXSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Castro County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 14 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Castro County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 14 records
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