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SPS3 Lea — Power plant · Solar · SunE SPS3, LLC
  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

SPS3 Lea

Power plant · Solar

Key facts

Power plant · Solarran 26% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2011
Net generation, 2025
22,713 MWh
Grid
12 kV to Southwestern Public Service Co (SWPP)
Location
Lea County, New Mexico
Operated by
SunE SPS3, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2011 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Solar source: “Solar Photovoltaic”
Age
15 years since 2011
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100000817895
Location id
L100000815064
Eia plant ids
57738
Grid
Nerc region
WECC
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
12.50
Transmission owner
Southwestern Public Service Co
Balancing authority code
SWPP
Balancing authority name
Southwest Power Pool
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202577,497
Capacity factor, 20250.259
Net generation (MWh), 202522,713
Balancing authority codeSWPP

Solar array

Array area (acres)
55.1
AC capacity (MW)
10.1
DC capacity (MW)
10.6
Mounting
Single-axis tracking
Site type
Greenfield
Began operating
2011

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

Timeline

  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · 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.
  • 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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