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San Patricio County, Texas

San Patricio County, Texas has 43 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 14 operating plants totaling 2.2 GW and 29 planned projects totaling 7.1 GW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 2.8 GW across 18 projects.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
43
power projects, planned and operating
7.1GW
planned generation, 29 projects
2.2GW
operating generation, 14 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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San Patricio County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Aransas Refugio no data centers San Patricio no data centers Nueces 1.2 GW Bee no data centers Jim Wells no data centers Live Oak 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
3.2times

more planned than operating generation in San Patricio County. 29 projects in the queue would add 7.1 GW to the 2.2 GW operating today.

Operating generation2.2 GW
Planned generation7.1 GW

Technology mix

43 projects, 9.3 GW planned and operating

Battery Storage2.8 GW18 projects, 30%
Wind2.4 GW7 projects, 25%
Solar2.3 GW10 projects, 25%
One other technology1.8 GW8 projects, 20%
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Power generation in the county

14 plants operate inside San Patricio County, 2.2 GW. The queue adds 7.1 GW across 29 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in San Patricio County

OperatingPlanned
Battery StorageOperating 19.8 MW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 2.8 GW 16 projects
WindOperating 1.1 GW 5 projects
WindPlanned 1.3 GW 2 projects
SolarOperating 150 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 2.2 GW 9 projects
Natural GasOperating 986.8 MW 6 projects
Natural GasPlanned 840 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Battery StorageOperating219.8
Battery StoragePlanned162,767.2
WindOperating51,050.3
WindPlanned21,326.9
SolarOperating1150
SolarPlanned92,181.9
Natural GasOperating6986.8
Natural GasPlanned2840
Operating: 2.2 GW. Planned: 7.1 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 9.3 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
01k2k3k Snapshot year 623 2026 565 2027 1,732 2028 2,540 2029 1,656 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20264622.9
20272565.1
202891,731.8
2029112,540.5
203031,655.7
No planned project is past its listed year

San Patricio County against its neighbors

Nueces County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 1.2 GW. 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
Nueces County 3
1,150
3,408
3,455 0.34x
San Patricio County this page 0
0
2,207
7,116 0x
Bee County 0
0
818
2,191 0x
Refugio County 0
0
220
2,429 0x
Jim Wells County 0
0
142
276 0x
Live Oak County 0
0
0
323 no operating MW

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.

6 counties shown

What changed since June 4, 2026

11 projects in San Patricio 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, 0 MW
5
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 904.9 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
6
slipped their in-service date, 1.2 GW

Every change in San Patricio County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 11 changes.

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County: San Patricio County, TXSince June 4, 2026 11 changes
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Every record in San Patricio County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 43 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: San Patricio County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 43 records
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