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Buckingham County, Virginia

Buckingham County, Virginia has 13 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 5 operating plants totaling 598.8 MW and 8 planned projects totaling 2 GW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1.9 GW across 5 projects.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
13
power projects, planned and operating
2GW
planned generation, 8 projects
598.8MW
operating generation, 5 projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Buckingham 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.

Cumberland no data centers Appomattox Albemarle Prince Edward 300 MW Fluvanna 0 MW Buckingham no data centers Nelson
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
3.3times

more planned than operating generation in Buckingham County. 8 projects in the queue would add 2 GW to the 598.8 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation598.8 MW
Planned generation2 GW

Technology mix

13 projects, 2.6 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas1.9 GW5 projects, 74%
Solar658.5 MW8 projects, 26%
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Power generation in the county

5 plants operate inside Buckingham County, 598.8 MW of natural gas and solar. The queue adds 2 GW across 8 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Buckingham County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 559 MW 3 projects
Natural GasPlanned 1.4 GW 2 projects
SolarOperating 39.8 MW 2 projects
SolarPlanned 618.7 MW 6 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating3559
Natural GasPlanned21,364
SolarOperating239.8
SolarPlanned6618.7
Operating: 598.8 MW. Planned: 2 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 2.6 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. 2 planned projects list no date and are left out.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0200400600800 Snapshot year 80 2025 100 2026 299 2027 2028 682 2029 75 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2025179.8
20261100
20272299
202800
20291682
2030174.9
1 project, 79.8 MW, was due before 2026

Buckingham County against its neighbors

Prince Edward County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 300 MW. 1 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
Prince Edward County 2
300
10
566 30x
Fluvanna County 1
0
1,021
5,161 0x
Buckingham County this page 0
0
599
1,983 0x
Cumberland County 0
0
0
840 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.

4 counties shown

What changed since June 4, 2026

3 projects in Buckingham 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
3
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 324.4 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Buckingham County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 changes.

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County: Buckingham County, VASince June 4, 2026 3 changes
ProjectChangeTechnologyMWPrevious dateNew date
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Every record in Buckingham County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 13 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Buckingham County, VAStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 13 records
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