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Colorado County, Texas

Colorado County, Texas has 31 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 51 MW and 25 planned projects totaling 2.3 GW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 1.4 GW across 14 projects.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
31
power projects, planned and operating
2.3GW
planned generation, 25 projects
51MW
operating generation, 6 natural gas projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Colorado County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Lavaca Fayette no data centers Austin 285 MW Wharton 600 MW Colorado no data centers Jackson 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
44.5times

more planned than operating generation in Colorado County. 25 projects in the queue would add 2.3 GW to the 51 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation51 MW
Planned generation2.3 GW

Technology mix

31 projects, 2.3 GW planned and operating

Battery Storage1.4 GW14 projects, 61%
Solar602.7 MW4 projects, 26%
Natural Gas294.6 MW13 projects, 13%
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Power generation in the county

6 plants operate inside Colorado County, 51 MW of natural gas. The queue adds 2.3 GW across 25 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Colorado County

OperatingPlanned
Battery StoragePlanned 1.4 GW 14 projects
SolarPlanned 602.7 MW 4 projects
Natural GasOperating 51 MW 6 projects
Natural GasPlanned 243.6 MW 7 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Battery StoragePlanned141,422.3
SolarPlanned4602.7
Natural GasOperating651
Natural GasPlanned7243.6
Operating: 51 MW. Planned: 2.3 GW. 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
0200400600800 Snapshot year 84 2025 299 2026 692 2027 609 2028 200 2029 386 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2025183.9
20266298.6
202710691.8
20284608.6
20292200
20302385.6
1 project, 83.9 MW, was due before 2026

Colorado County against its neighbors

Wharton County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 600 MW. 3 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Wharton County 10
600
3,912
10,732 0.15x
Austin County 1
285
210
4,529 1.4x
Fayette County 0
0
2,172
1,217 0x
Jackson County 0
0
221
1,337 0x
Colorado County this page 0
0
51
2,269 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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What changed since June 4, 2026

6 projects in Colorado County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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2
added to a queue, 19.8 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
3
slipped their in-service date, 431.3 MW

Every change in Colorado County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 6 changes.

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County: Colorado County, TXSince June 4, 2026 6 changes
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Every record in Colorado County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 31 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Colorado County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 31 records
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