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Morelos del Sol: location and 5 exact-grade projects within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Morelos del Sol
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2015
- Net generation, 2025
- 31,159 MWh
- Grid
- 70 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- Southern Power Co
Output
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Morelos Solar, LLC
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- Technology
- Solar source: “Solar Photovoltaic”
- Age
- 11 years since 2015
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 106,314 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.237 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 31,159 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Solar arrays
Solar arrays
The array area counts panels and inverters only, not buildings, fences or the whole site.
USGS maps the center of this array 4.4 mi from the point this page maps the plant at.
- Array area (acres)
- 91.9
- AC capacity (MW)
- 15
- DC capacity (MW)
- 18.7
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 2015
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Morelos Solar, LLC | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 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
- 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.
- USPVDBMap 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
- EIASource: 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
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|---|---|---|---|
| Pistachio Road 1726-WD Under construction | Solar | 4.4 mi | 4.8 |
| Pelicans Jaw Hybrid Solar Under construction | Solar + storage | 4.8 mi | 678.5 |
| Gardenia 1 Announced | Solar + storage | 5.3 mi | 6 |
| Chalan Under construction | Solar + storage | 6.2 mi | 64.9 |
| Chevron - Lost Hills Hybrid Postponed | Storage | 10.6 mi | 10 |