Exelon City Solar
BrownfieldChicago, Illinois
Exelon City Solar is a former brownfield site in Chicago, Illinois. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 10 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Exelon City Solar — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will County | coal plant | 1,269 | 24.0 mi | — |
| Crawford | coal plant | 805 | 2.0 mi | — |
| Dean H Mitchell | coal plant | 538 | 19.8 mi | — |
| Southeast Chicago Energy Project | natural gas plant | 407 | 10.9 mi | — |
| Fisk Street | coal plant | 374 | 1.9 mi | — |
| Electric Junction | natural gas plant | 304 | 20.5 mi | — |
| Calumet | natural gas plant | 278 | 11.2 mi | — |
| Bloom | oil plant | 152 | 17.9 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Exelon City Solar, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN122269 | Substation-Adjacent | IL | Cook County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 71.4 |
| UNKNOWN124436 | Substation-Adjacent | IL | Cook County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 70.4 |
| UNKNOWN122285 | Substation-Adjacent | IL | Cook County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 68.7 |
| ELMHURST | Substation-Adjacent | IL | DuPage County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.1 |
| UNKNOWN124699 | Substation-Adjacent | IL | Cook County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.1 |
| LISLE | Substation-Adjacent | IL | DuPage County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.0 |
| ITASCA | Substation-Adjacent | IL | DuPage County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.0 |
| Electric Junction | Brownfield | IL | DuPage County | — | 304 MW | 4.6 yrs | 66.7 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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