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Sterling County, Texas

Sterling County, Texas has 19 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 10 operating plants totaling 1.5 GW and 9 planned projects totaling 1.6 GW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 2.3 GW across 13 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
19
power projects, planned and operating
1.6GW
planned generation, 9 projects
1.5GW
operating generation, 10 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Sterling County and its neighbors

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

Tom Green 1 GW Mitchell 300 MW Sterling no data centers Glasscock no data centers Howard no data centers Reagan no data centers Coke 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

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1.1times

more planned than operating generation in Sterling County. 9 projects in the queue would add 1.6 GW to the 1.5 GW operating today.

Operating generation1.5 GW
Planned generation1.6 GW

Technology mix

19 projects, 3.1 GW planned and operating

Wind2.3 GW13 projects, 72%
Solar556.8 MW4 projects, 18%
Battery Storage301.8 MW2 projects, 10%
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Power generation in the county

10 plants operate inside Sterling County, 1.5 GW of wind and solar. The queue adds 1.6 GW across 9 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Sterling County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 1.3 GW 8 projects
WindPlanned 930.7 MW 5 projects
SolarOperating 145 MW 2 projects
SolarPlanned 411.8 MW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 301.8 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating81,328.9
WindPlanned5930.7
SolarOperating2145
SolarPlanned2411.8
Battery StoragePlanned2301.8
Operating: 1.5 GW. Planned: 1.6 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 3.1 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 213 2026 303 2027 717 2028 412 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20262212.5
20271303.2
20284716.8
20292411.8
No planned project is past its listed year

Sterling County against its neighbors

Tom Green County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 1 GW. 5 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Tom Green County 2
1,000
818
3,327 1.2x
Mitchell County 1
300
688
7,169 0.44x
Sterling County this page 0
0
1,474
1,644 0x
Glasscock County 0
0
743
4,022 0x
Howard County 0
0
657
2,680 0x
Coke County 0
0
527
1,292 0x
Reagan County 0
0
310
618 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.

7 counties shown

What changed since June 4, 2026

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

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0
added to a queue, 0 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, 333.8 MW

Every change in Sterling County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 4 changes.

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County: Sterling County, TXSince June 4, 2026 4 changes
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Every record in Sterling County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 19 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Sterling County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 19 records
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