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Fayette County, West Virginia

Fayette County, West Virginia has 15 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 12 operating plants totaling 108.2 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 285.2 MW. No data center record lists the county. Hydro leads with 213.4 MW across 13 projects.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
15
power projects, planned and operating
285.2MW
planned generation, 3 projects
108.2MW
operating generation, 12 hydro projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Fayette County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Greenbrier no data centers Summers Fayette no data centers Kanawha no data centers Nicholas no data centers Raleigh
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
2.6times

more planned than operating generation in Fayette County. 3 projects in the queue would add 285.2 MW to the 108.2 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation108.2 MW
Planned generation285.2 MW

Technology mix

15 projects, 393.4 MW planned and operating

Hydro213.4 MW13 projects, 54%
Solar180 MW2 projects, 46%
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Power generation in the county

12 plants operate inside Fayette County, 108.2 MW of hydro. The queue adds 285.2 MW across 3 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Fayette County

OperatingPlanned
HydroOperating 108.2 MW 12 projects
HydroPlanned 105.2 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 180 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
HydroOperating12108.2
HydroPlanned1105.2
SolarPlanned2180
Operating: 108.2 MW. Planned: 285.2 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 393.4 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. 1 planned project lists no date and is left out.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
050100150 Snapshot year 90 2024 2025 2026 2027 105 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2024190
202500
202600
202700
20281105.2
1 project, 90 MW, was due before 2026

Fayette County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Greenbrier County has the most operating generation among them, 188.2 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Greenbrier County 0
0
188
0 0x
Fayette County this page 0
0
108
285 0x
Nicholas County 0
0
80
347 0x
Kanawha County 0
0
29
65 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 Fayette 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
2
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 290 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Fayette County

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

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County: Fayette County, WVSince June 4, 2026 2 changes
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Every record in Fayette County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 15 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Fayette County, WVStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 15 records
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