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Ivanpah 1
Power plant · Solar thermal
Key facts
Power plant · Solar thermalran 19% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2013
- Net generation, 2025
- 208,047 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- San Bernardino County, California
- Operated by
- NRG Energy Services
Output
- Gas
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Solar Partners II LLC, NRG Energy, Inc, Alphabet Inc and 1 more
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- Technology
- Solar thermal source: “Solar Thermal without Energy Storage”
- Age
- 13 years since 2013
- Heat rate
- 11,500 Btu/kWh 2025
All 8 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 2,392,560 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.189 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 11,500.1 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 208,047 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Ownership
5 companies5| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRG Energy Services | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| NRG Energy, Inc | Owner | 50.1% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| ALPHABET INC | Owner | 28.1% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY INC | Owner | 21.8% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Solar Partners II LLC | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules