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Sunray 3: location and 3 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Sunray 3
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 31% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2017
- Net generation, 2025
- 37,183 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- San Bernardino County, California
- Operated by
- Sunray Energy 3 LLC
Output
- Gas
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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 |
|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 126,868 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.308 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 37,183 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Solar arrays
Solar arrays
The array area counts panels and inverters only, not buildings, fences or the whole site.
- Array area (acres)
- 196.5
- AC capacity (MW)
- 13.8
- DC capacity (MW)
- 17.2
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 1985
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
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 30 MW
- Generators retired
- 1
- Capacity still in service
- 13.8 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Solar Thermal without Energy Storage | 30 MW | Retired | December 2015 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 34 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Southern California Edison Co
- Balancing authority
- California Independent System Operator
- NERC region
- WECC
Transmission lines within 25 km (3)
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Ownership
4 companies4| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunray Energy 3 LLC | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| COGENTRIX ENERGY LLC | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Sunray Energy Inc | Owner | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 | |
| CRE-Sunray Energy 3 California LLC Delaware | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit GEN1 scheduled to retire, 30 MW · EIA-860M
Sources
8 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · USPVDB · 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 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.
- LBNL — A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024 (OEDI submission 8742)Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- 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
- 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
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar Photovoltaic Project #40 Postponed | Solar | 3.7 km | 10 |
| Solar Photovoltaic Project #41 Postponed | Solar | 3.7 km | 10 |
| Minneola Solar Under construction | Solar | 5.6 km | 3 |