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Fort Bend County, Texas

Fort Bend County, Texas has 128 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 114 operating plants totaling 7.2 GW and 14 planned projects totaling 2.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 3.1 GW across 18 projects.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
128
power projects, planned and operating
2.4GW
planned generation, 14 projects
7.2GW
operating generation, 114 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Fort Bend County and its neighbors

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

Brazoria 300 MW Austin 285 MW Wharton 600 MW Harris 532.5 MW Waller no data centers Fort Bend 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
33%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 2.4 GW planned across 14 projects against 7.2 GW operating.

Operating generation7.2 GW
Planned generation2.4 GW

Technology mix

128 projects, 9.6 GW planned and operating

Battery Storage3.1 GW18 projects, 32%
Coal2.7 GW4 projects, 29%
Natural Gas2.5 GW70 projects, 26%
2 other technologies1.2 GW36 projects, 13%
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Power generation in the county

114 plants operate inside Fort Bend County, 7.2 GW. The queue adds 2.4 GW across 14 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Fort Bend County

OperatingPlanned
Battery StorageOperating 700 MW 4 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 2.4 GW 14 projects
CoalOperating 2.7 GW 4 projects
Natural GasOperating 2.5 GW 70 projects
SolarOperating 1.2 GW 6 projects
OilOperating 18 MW 30 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Battery StorageOperating4700
Battery StoragePlanned142,367.8
CoalOperating42,736.8
Natural GasOperating702,534.6
SolarOperating61,221.2
OilOperating3018
Operating: 7.2 GW. Planned: 2.4 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 9.6 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 1,203 2026 687 2027 277 2028 100 2029 100 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202671,203.2
20273687.5
20282277.2
20291100
20301100
No planned project is past its listed year

Fort Bend County against its neighbors

Wharton County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 600 MW. 4 of the 5 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
Harris County 12
533
11,021
8,247 0.05x
Brazoria County 1
300
5,961
14,272 0.05x
Austin County 1
285
210
4,529 1.4x
Fort Bend County this page 0
0
7,211
2,368 0x
Waller County 0
0
480
924 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

10 projects in Fort Bend County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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added to a queue, 100 MW
3
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 840.2 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
6
slipped their in-service date, 745.6 MW

Every change in Fort Bend County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 10 changes.

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County: Fort Bend County, TXSince June 4, 2026 10 changes
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Every record in Fort Bend County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 128 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Fort Bend County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 128 records
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