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Charles City, Virginia

Charles City, Virginia has 52 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 50 operating plants totaling 309.4 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 449 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 744 MW across 4 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
52
power projects, planned and operating
449MW
planned generation, 2 projects
309.4MW
operating generation, 50 projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Charles City and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Henrico 2.7 GW Surry no data centers Charles City no data centers James City no data centers Chesterfield 948 MW Prince George no data centers New Kent
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
1.5times

more planned than operating generation in Charles City. 2 projects in the queue would add 449 MW to the 309.4 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation309.4 MW
Planned generation449 MW

Technology mix

52 projects, 758.4 MW planned and operating

Solar744 MW4 projects, 98%
Landfill Gas14.4 MW48 projects, 2%
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Power generation in the county

50 plants operate inside Charles City, 309.4 MW of solar and landfill gas. The queue adds 449 MW across 2 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Charles City

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 295 MW 2 projects
SolarPlanned 449 MW 2 projects
Landfill GasOperating 14.4 MW 48 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating2295
SolarPlanned2449
Landfill GasOperating4814.4
Operating: 309.4 MW. Planned: 449 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 758.4 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
0100200300 Snapshot year 154 2024 2025 295 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20241154
202500
20261295
1 project, 154 MW, was due before 2026

Charles City against its neighbors

Henrico County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 2.7 GW. 3 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Henrico County 51
2,666
398
60 6.7x
Chesterfield County 16
948
504
3,085 1.9x
Surry County 0
0
2,493
922 0x
Prince George County 0
0
587
136 0x
Charles City this page 0
0
309
449 0x
James City 0
0
40
1,305 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

2 projects in Charles City 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
2
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 520 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Charles City

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.

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County: Charles City, VASince June 4, 2026 2 changes
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Every record in Charles City

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 52 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Charles City, VAStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 52 records
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