Copper Mountain Solar Facility
The Copper Mountain Solar Facility is a 802 megawatt (MWAC) solar photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, Nevada, United States. The plant was developed by Sempra Generation. When the first unit of the facility entered service on December 1, 2010, it was the largest photovoltaic plant in the U.S. at 58 MW. With the opening of Copper Mountain V in March 2021, it again became the largest in the United States. It is co-located with the 64 MW Nevada Solar One, 150 MW Boulder Solar, and 300 MW Techren Solar projects in the Eldorado Valley, thus forming a more than 1 gigawatt (GW) solar generating complex. By comparison, generating capacity at the nearby Hoover Dam is about 2 GW.
| Copper Mountain Solar Facility | |
|---|---|
Copper Mountain Solar 1 (at left) | |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Boulder City, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 35°47′00″N 114°59′30″W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | January 2010 |
| Commission date | Dec 2008 - Mar 2021 |
| Owner(s) | Sempra Generation |
| Solar farm | |
| Type | Flat-panel PV |
| Site area | 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 9 million First Solar panels |
| Nameplate capacity | 802 MWAC |
| Capacity factor | 27.9% (average 2017-2019) |
| Annual net output | 1,348 GW·h, 337 MW·h/acre |
| External links | |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
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