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Portage County, Wisconsin

Portage County, Wisconsin has 31 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 21 operating plants totaling 24.7 MW and 10 planned projects totaling 3.6 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 3 GW across 7 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
31
power projects, planned and operating
3.6GW
planned generation, 10 projects
24.7MW
operating generation, 21 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Portage County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Waushara no data centers Waupaca Marathon no data centers Portage no data centers Wood 20 MW Adams 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

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more planned than operating generation in Portage County. 10 projects in the queue would add 3.6 GW to the 24.7 MW operating today.

Operating generation24.7 MW
Planned generation3.6 GW

Technology mix

31 projects, 3.6 GW planned and operating

Solar3 GW7 projects, 84%
Natural Gas357.6 MW2 projects, 10%
Battery Storage200.3 MW2 projects, 6%
One other technology17.1 MW20 projects, 0%
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Power generation in the county

21 plants operate inside Portage County, 24.7 MW of natural gas and hydro. The queue adds 3.6 GW across 10 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Portage County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 3 GW 7 projects
Natural GasOperating 7.6 MW 1 project
Natural GasPlanned 350 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 200.3 MW 2 projects
HydroOperating 17.1 MW 20 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned73,027.2
Natural GasOperating17.6
Natural GasPlanned1350
Battery StoragePlanned2200.3
HydroOperating2017.1
Operating: 24.7 MW. Planned: 3.6 GW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 3.6 GW.
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
01k2k3k Snapshot year 448 2026 600 2027 2,529 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20263448.4
20272600
202852,529.1
No planned project is past its listed year

Portage County against its neighbors

Wood County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 20 MW. 4 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Wood County 1
20
407
551 0.05x
Marathon County 0
0
1,165
269 0x
Waushara County 0
0
99
789 0x
Portage County this page 0
0
25
3,578 0x
Adams County 0
0
23
200 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

4 projects in Portage 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, 150 MW
2
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 500 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 250 MW

Every change in Portage County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 4 changes.

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County: Portage County, WISince June 4, 2026 4 changes
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Every record in Portage County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 31 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Portage County, WIStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 31 records
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