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Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Buffalo County, Wisconsin has 3 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 390 MW and 1 planned project totaling 3 MW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 387 MW across 1 project. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
3
power projects, planned and operating
3MW
planned generation, 1 project
390MW
operating generation, 2 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Buffalo 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.

Pepin Buffalo no data centers Eau Claire no data centers Trempealeau no data centers
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%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 3 MW planned across 1 project against 390 MW operating.

Operating generation390 MW
Planned generation3 MW

Technology mix

3 projects, 393 MW planned and operating

Coal387 MW1 project, 98%
Solar6 MW2 projects, 2%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Buffalo County, 390 MW of coal and solar. The queue adds 3 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Buffalo County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 387 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 3 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 3 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating1387
SolarOperating13
SolarPlanned13
Operating: 390 MW. Planned: 3 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 393 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
0123 Snapshot year 3 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202613
No planned project is past its listed year

Buffalo County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Trempealeau County has the most operating generation among them, 21.9 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Buffalo County this page 0
0
390
3 0x
Trempealeau County 0
0
22
89 0x
Eau Claire County 0
0
15
0 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 Buffalo 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
2
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 6 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Buffalo County

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

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County: Buffalo County, WISince June 4, 2026 2 changes
ProjectChangeTechnologyMWPrevious dateNew date
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Every record in Buffalo 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: Buffalo County, WIStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 3 records
Project or campusDeveloperStatusMWYearContacts
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