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Polk County, Wisconsin

Polk County, Wisconsin has 25 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 23 operating plants totaling 145.6 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 200 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 205.5 MW across 5 projects. 2 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
25
power projects, planned and operating
200MW
planned generation, 2 projects
145.6MW
operating generation, 23 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Polk County and its neighbors

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

Polk no data centers St Croix no data centers Barron no data centers Burnett 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
1.4times

more planned than operating generation in Polk County. 2 projects in the queue would add 200 MW to the 145.6 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Operating generation145.6 MW
Planned generation200 MW

Technology mix

25 projects, 345.6 MW planned and operating

Solar205.5 MW5 projects, 59%
Transmission100 MW1 project, 29%
Hydro23.2 MW8 projects, 7%
2 other technologies16.9 MW11 projects, 5%
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Power generation in the county

23 plants operate inside Polk County, 145.6 MW. The queue adds 200 MW across 2 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Polk County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 105.5 MW 4 projects
SolarPlanned 100 MW 1 project
TransmissionPlanned 100 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 23.2 MW 8 projects
OilOperating 13.7 MW 9 projects
BiomassOperating 3.2 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating4105.5
SolarPlanned1100
TransmissionPlanned1100
HydroOperating823.2
OilOperating913.7
BiomassOperating23.2
Operating: 145.6 MW. Planned: 200 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 345.6 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
050100150200 200 2025
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20252200
2 projects, 200 MW, were due before 2026

Polk County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Barron County has the most operating generation among them, 33.4 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Polk County this page 0
0
146
200 0x
Barron County 0
0
33
500 0x
Burnett County 0
0
11
3 0x
St Croix County 0
0
10
201 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

1 project in Polk County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 100 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Polk County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Polk County, WISince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Polk County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 25 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Polk County, WIStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 25 records
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