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Newton County, Texas

Newton County, Texas has 11 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 10 operating plants totaling 1.5 GW and 1 planned project totaling 175 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1.4 GW across 8 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
11
power projects, planned and operating
175MW
planned generation, 1 project
1.5GW
operating generation, 10 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Newton County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Orange no data centers Jasper no data centers Sabine Newton 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
12%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 175 MW planned across 1 project against 1.5 GW operating.

Operating generation1.5 GW
Planned generation175 MW

Technology mix

11 projects, 1.7 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas1.4 GW8 projects, 85%
Solar175 MW1 project, 10%
Hydro81 MW2 projects, 5%
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Power generation in the county

10 plants operate inside Newton County, 1.5 GW of natural gas and hydro. The queue adds 175 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Newton County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 1.4 GW 8 projects
SolarPlanned 175 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 81 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating81,433.6
SolarPlanned1175
HydroOperating281
Operating: 1.5 GW. Planned: 175 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.7 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
050100150200 Snapshot year 175 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20261175
No planned project is past its listed year

Newton County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Orange County has the most operating generation among them, 2.5 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Orange County 0
0
2,455
1,732 0x
Newton County this page 0
0
1,515
175 0x
Jasper County 0
0
118
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 Newton County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 11 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Newton County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 11 records
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