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Chicopee
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 13% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2017
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,298 MWh
- Grid
- 14 kV to City of Chicopee - (MA) (ISNE)
- Location
- Hampden County, Massachusetts
- Operated by
- Captona Chicopee LLC
Output
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- Technology
- Solar source: “Solar Photovoltaic”
- Age
- 9 years since 2017
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 7,841 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.131 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 2,298 |
| Balancing authority code | ISNE |
Solar array
Solar array
The array area counts panels and inverters only, not buildings, fences or the whole site.
- Array area (acres)
- 5.3
- AC capacity (MW)
- 2
- DC capacity (MW)
- 2.5
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 2017
Source USPVDB
Source
- U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic DatabaseMap 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
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captona Chicopee LLC | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Captona Partners Solar I Finco LLC | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · USPVDB · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) — USGS and LBNL; one row per facility with its array footprintMap 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
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Postponed | Gas, combined cycle | 1.9 km | 422 |
| Palmer Renewable Energy Postponed | Biomass | 4.6 km | 42 |
| Riverside Holyoke Postponed | Hydro | 7.2 km | 1.1 |
| Chicopee BESS Under construction | Storage | 8.4 km | 5 |
| Hadley Falls Postponed | Hydro | 8.4 km | 3.5 |
| Holyoke MA BESS 1 Under construction | Storage | 11.5 km | 5 |
| Belchertown Solar PV + Battery Project Under construction | Solar + storage | 17.6 km | 5.6 |