Amherst County, Virginia
Amherst County, Virginia has 7 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 12.4 MW and 1 planned project totaling 50 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 54.9 MW across 2 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Amherst County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
more planned than operating generation in Amherst County. 1 project in the queue would add 50 MW to the 12.4 MW operating today.
Technology mix
7 projects, 62.4 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
6 plants operate inside Amherst County, 12.4 MW of solar and hydro. The queue adds 50 MW across 1 project.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Amherst County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 1 | 4.9 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 50 |
| Hydro | Operating | 5 | 7.5 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2028 | 1 | 50 |
Amherst County against its neighbors
None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Campbell County has the most operating generation among them, 178.6 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell County | 0 | 408 | 0x | ||
| Bedford County | 0 | 75 | 0x | ||
| Amherst County this page | 0 | 50 | 0x | ||
| Lynchburg City | 0 | 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.
4 counties shownEvery record in Amherst County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 7 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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