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Polk County, Texas

Polk County, Texas has 8 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 4 operating plants totaling 176.7 MW and 4 planned projects totaling 655 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 805 MW across 5 projects. 2 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
8
power projects, planned and operating
655MW
planned generation, 4 projects
176.7MW
operating generation, 4 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Polk County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

San Jacinto no data centers Hardin no data centers Liberty no data centers Trinity Tyler Polk no data centers Angelina 175 MW
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
3.7times

more planned than operating generation in Polk County. 4 projects in the queue would add 655 MW to the 176.7 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Operating generation176.7 MW
Planned generation655 MW

Technology mix

8 projects, 831.7 MW planned and operating

Solar805 MW5 projects, 97%
Hydro26.7 MW3 projects, 3%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside Polk County, 176.7 MW of solar and hydro. The queue adds 655 MW across 4 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Polk County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 150 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 655 MW 4 projects
HydroOperating 26.7 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating1150
SolarPlanned4655
HydroOperating326.7
Operating: 176.7 MW. Planned: 655 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 831.7 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
050100150200 Snapshot year 150 2023 2024 165 2025 170 2026 2027 2028 170 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20231150
202400
20251165
20261170
202700
202800
20291170
2 projects, 315 MW, were due before 2026

Polk County against its neighbors

Angelina County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 175 MW. 4 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
Angelina County 1
175
200
1,908 0.88x
Polk County this page 0
0
177
655 0x
Hardin County 0
0
173
939 0x
San Jacinto County 0
0
170
617 0x
Liberty County 0
0
110
1,030 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

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

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1
added to a queue, 170 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Polk County

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

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

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 8 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Polk County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 8 records
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