Desert Sunlight Solar Farm

Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
Solar arrays at Desert Sunlight
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CountryUnited States
LocationRiverside County, California
Coordinates33°49′17″N 115°23′38″W / 33.82139°N 115.39389°W / 33.82139; -115.39389
StatusOperational
Construction began2011
Commission date2015
Owner(s)NextEra Energy Resources, GE Energy Financial Services, Sumitomo Group
Solar farm
TypeFlat-panel PV
fixed tilt
Site area3,900 acres (1,600 ha)
Power generation
Nameplate capacity550 MWAC
Capacity factor27.5% (average 2015-2018)
Annual net output1,325 GW·h,
340 MW·h/acre
External links
Websitefirstsolar.com

The Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550-megawatt (MWAC) photovoltaic power station approximately six miles north of Desert Center, California, United States, in the Mojave Desert. It uses approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride modules made by the US thin-film manufacturer First Solar. It has the same 550 MW installed capacity as the Topaz Solar Farm in the Carrizo Plain region of Central California, making both of them tied for the second largest completed solar plants by installed capacity as of fall 2015.[1][2]


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