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Nicholas County, West Virginia

Nicholas County, West Virginia has 5 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 80 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 346.9 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 250 MW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: PJM InterconnectionRefreshed monthly
5
power projects, planned and operating
346.9MW
planned generation, 3 projects
80MW
operating generation, 2 hydro projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Nicholas 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.

Webster Greenbrier no data centers Clay Fayette no data centers Kanawha no data centers Nicholas no data centers Braxton
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
4.3times

more planned than operating generation in Nicholas County. 3 projects in the queue would add 346.9 MW to the 80 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation80 MW
Planned generation346.9 MW

Technology mix

5 projects, 426.9 MW planned and operating

Solar250 MW2 projects, 59%
Battery Storage96.9 MW1 project, 23%
Hydro80 MW2 projects, 19%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Nicholas County, 80 MW of hydro. The queue adds 346.9 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 Nicholas County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 250 MW 2 projects
Battery StoragePlanned 96.9 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 80 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned2250
Battery StoragePlanned196.9
HydroOperating280
Operating: 80 MW. Planned: 346.9 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 426.9 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 97 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 250 2029
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2023196.9
202400
202500
202600
202700
202800
20292250
1 project, 96.9 MW, was due before 2026

Nicholas 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 0
0
108
285 0x
Nicholas County this page 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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Every record in Nicholas County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 5 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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