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Solar Star 2: location and 13 exact-grade projects within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Solar Star 2
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 29% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2014
- Net generation, 2025
- 720,719 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- Solar Star California XX, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
Details
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- Technology
- Solar source: “Solar Photovoltaic”
- Age
- 12 years since 2014
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 2,459,093 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.295 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 720,719 |
| 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 5.2 mi from the point this page maps the plant at.
- Array area (acres)
- 1,316.1
- AC capacity (MW)
- 279.5
- DC capacity (MW)
- 349.5
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 2015
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · USPVDB · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
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
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosamond South II Under construction | Storage | 4.5 mi | 140 |
| Solar Star 3 Under construction | Solar + storage | 5.8 mi | 24 |
| Solar Star 4 Under construction | Solar + storage | 5.8 mi | 24 |
| Syracuse and Tours Renewable Energy Permitted | Solar + storage | 7.5 mi | 80 |
| Camino Solar Hybrid Postponed | Storage | 7.6 mi | 11 |
| Alpine Solar Withdrawn | Solar | 9.5 mi | 66 |
| Antelope Solar Farm Postponed | Solar | 10.0 mi | 20 |
| Portal Ridge Solar A, LLC Postponed | Solar | 10.6 mi | 19 |
| Gaskell West Storage 1, LLC Under construction | Storage | 11.1 mi | 21.6 |
| Willow Rock Energy Storage Center Contracted | Storage | 11.9 mi | 500 |
| Windhub Solar B, LLC Under construction | Solar | 12.3 mi | 26.4 |
| Neenach Solar Center Postponed | Solar | 14.3 mi | 1.5 |
| Tehachapi Wind Resource I Postponed | Wind | 14.8 mi | 0.6 |