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Zapata County, Texas

Zapata County, Texas has 33 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 5 operating plants totaling 440.7 MW and 28 planned projects totaling 6.5 GW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 2.4 GW across 11 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: ERCOTRefreshed monthly
33
power projects, planned and operating
6.5GW
planned generation, 28 projects
440.7MW
operating generation, 5 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Zapata County and its neighbors

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

Jim Hogg no data centers Zapata no data centers Webb 5 GW Starr 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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14.7times

more planned than operating generation in Zapata County. 28 projects in the queue would add 6.5 GW to the 440.7 MW operating today.

Operating generation440.7 MW
Planned generation6.5 GW

Technology mix

33 projects, 6.9 GW planned and operating

Wind2.4 GW11 projects, 34%
Solar2.3 GW10 projects, 33%
Battery Storage2.3 GW12 projects, 33%
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Power generation in the county

5 plants operate inside Zapata County, 440.7 MW of wind and battery storage. The queue adds 6.5 GW across 28 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Zapata County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 411 MW 2 projects
WindPlanned 2 GW 9 projects
SolarPlanned 2.3 GW 10 projects
Battery StorageOperating 29.7 MW 3 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 2.2 GW 9 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating2411
WindPlanned91,974
SolarPlanned102,282.5
Battery StorageOperating329.7
Battery StoragePlanned92,234.2
Operating: 440.7 MW. Planned: 6.5 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 6.9 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 1,748 2027 2,051 2028 2,488 2029 2030 2031 204 2032
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202781,748.1
2028102,051
202982,488
203000
203100
20322203.6
No planned project is past its listed year

Zapata County against its neighbors

Webb County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 5 GW. 2 of the 3 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Webb County 2
5,000
2,613
5,047 1.9x
Starr County 0
0
1,166
5,145 0x
Zapata County this page 0
0
441
6,491 0x
Jim Hogg County 0
0
78
2,933 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

4 projects in Zapata 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
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 121.3 MW
3
slipped their in-service date, 403.6 MW

Every change in Zapata County

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

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

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 33 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Zapata County, TXStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 33 records
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