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Brighter Future Solar — Power plant · Solar · Brighter Future Solar LLCCLT40 DATA CENTER — Under construction · Large load · NC · 8.6 mi awayCLT04 LYLE CREEK DATA CENTER — Under construction · Large load · NC · 11.3 mi awayTAPAHA DYNAMICS, LLC — Built · Large load · NC · 11.4 mi awayRJ Solar — Postponed · Solar · NC · 5 MW · 13.7 mi awayMICROSOFT CORPORATION, CLT17 — Built · Large load · NC · 13.8 mi away
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Brighter Future Solar

Power plant · Solar

Key facts

Power plant · Solarran 22% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2022
Net generation, 2025
20,823 MWh
Grid
12 kV to Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) (DUK)
Location
Caldwell County, North Carolina
Operated by
Brighter Future Solar LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2022 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Solar source: “Solar Photovoltaic”
Age
4 years since 2022
All 5 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100000814818
Location id
L100000812209
Eia plant ids
64910
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202571,047
Capacity factor, 20250.216
Net generation (MWh), 202520,823
Balancing authority codeDUK

Solar arrays

Array area (acres)
39.2
AC capacity (MW)
11
DC capacity (MW)
15.7
Mounting
Fixed tilt
Site type
Greenfield
Began operating
2023

Source USPVDB

Source

  • USPVDBOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map services and data are available from Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb

Attribution

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Next scheduled retirement
January 2052
Capacity scheduled to retire
11 MW
Generators scheduled to retire
1
Share of in-service capacity scheduled
100%
Capacity still in service
11 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
BFSNCSolar Photovoltaic11 MWScheduled to retireJanuary 2052

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
12 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC)
Balancing authority
Duke Energy Carolinas
NERC region
SERC
Transmission lines within 15 mi (8)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Unit BFSNC scheduled to retire, 11 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · USPVDB · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
  • USPVDBOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map services and data are available from Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 15 mi
ProjectKindAwayMW
CLT40 DATA CENTER Under construction Large load 8.6 mi
CLT04 LYLE CREEK DATA CENTER Under construction Large load 11.3 mi
TAPAHA DYNAMICS, LLC Built Large load 11.4 mi
RJ Solar Postponed Solar 13.7 mi 5
MICROSOFT CORPORATION, CLT17 Built Large load 13.8 mi

Sources EPA ICIS-NPDES · EPA ICIS-Air · EIA-860M

Sources

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