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Mitchell County, Texas: solar, storage and data center siting

Counts of land, grid and queue activity in Mitchell County from public data, as Voltane screens it. Screening only, not a site suitability determination.

Candidate land

Land holdings of 50 acres or more that Voltane screens for solar, storage and hybrid projects. Counts only; the sites and their scores are in the map.

SizeCandidate sites
50 acres and up1,115
300 acres and up377
500 acres and up187

Source: TxGIO StratMap Land Parcels 2025 (county appraisal dates Feb to Jul 2025), Voltane processing of 2026-09-29.

These are candidates before Voltane's screening filters (flood, wetlands, protected land, distance to 138 kV) and before any project type is chosen. The map shows how many pass for solar, storage or hybrid.

Transmission and substations

Voltage classLine miles in the countySubstations
345 kV and above1015
230 kV00
115 to 161 kV157.15
69 kV and below50.13
Voltage not recorded50

Source: lines: HIFLD Electric Power Transmission Lines (final release, 2024-09-30) merged with OpenStreetMap (Texas extract, 2026-09-29); substations: OpenStreetMap Texas extract, 2026-09-29.

13 mapped substations in all. A nearby line or substation is a proxy for grid access, not a statement that it can take a new project.

Utilities and grid

Grid: ERCOT.

Source: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories, data year 2022.

ERCOT interconnection queue

15 projects, 6,792 MW in ERCOT's generation interconnection queue list Mitchell County.

FuelProjectsMW
Battery storage93,815
Solar41,686
Wind21,290
StatusProjectsMW
Interconnection agreement signed1176
No interconnection agreement yet146,616

Queued MW show where other developers have asked to connect. They are a competition signal, not a measure of grid room, and many queued projects are never built.

Source: ERCOT GIS Report (MIS 15933), August 2026 report, published 2026-09-01.

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