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Buchanan County, Virginia

Buchanan County, Virginia has 3 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 88 MW and 1 planned project totaling 75 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 88 MW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
3
power projects, planned and operating
75MW
planned generation, 1 project
88MW
operating generation, 2 natural gas projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Buchanan County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Tazewell no data centers Buchanan no data centers Dickenson no data centers Russell
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
85%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 75 MW planned across 1 project against 88 MW operating.

Operating generation88 MW
Planned generation75 MW

Technology mix

3 projects, 163 MW planned and operating

Natural Gas88 MW2 projects, 54%
Solar75 MW1 project, 46%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Buchanan County, 88 MW of natural gas. The queue adds 75 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Buchanan County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 88 MW 2 projects
SolarPlanned 75 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating288
SolarPlanned175
Operating: 88 MW. Planned: 75 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 163 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
020406080 75 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2029175
No planned project is past its listed year

Buchanan County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Buchanan County this page 0
0
88
75 0x
Dickenson County 0
0
0
120 no operating MW
Tazewell County 0
0
0
343 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.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Buchanan 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
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 75 MW

Every change in Buchanan County

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

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County: Buchanan County, VASince June 4, 2026 1 change
ProjectChangeTechnologyMWPrevious dateNew date
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Every record in Buchanan County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 3 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Buchanan County, VAStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 3 records
Project or campusDeveloperStatusMWYearContacts
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