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Whitakers: location and 5 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Whitakers
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 23% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2015
- Net generation, 2025
- 24,158 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Nash County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Deriva Energy
Output
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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 | 82,429 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.230 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 24,158 |
| Balancing authority code | PJM |
Solar array
Solar array
The array area counts panels and inverters only, not buildings, fences or the whole site.
- Array area (acres)
- 114.6
- AC capacity (MW)
- 12
- DC capacity (MW)
- 16.8
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 2015
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deriva Energy | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Colonial Eagle 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
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield Farm Postponed | Solar | 8.1 km | 5 |
| Sweetleaf Solar LLC Permitted | Solar | 11.2 km | 93 |
| Halifax County Solar Under construction | Solar | 14.7 km | 80 |
| Carter Solar Postponed | Solar | 17.0 km | 5 |
| Edgecombe Solar LLC Under construction | Solar | 20.9 km | 75 |
Sources EIA-860M