Muscle Shoals
Solar power plant · Colbert County, Alabama
Nameplate capacity
227 MW
Rank in Alabama
#23
of 80 plants
In service since
2021
September 2021
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Muscle Shoals Solar, LLC
- County
- Colbert County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.69%
- Rank among solar plants in Alabama
- #1 of 14
- EIA plant code
- 62462
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN01 | Solar Photovoltaic | 227 MW | 227 MW | 2021 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Alabama
| Theodore Cogen Facility | Natural gas | 317 MW |
| Hog Bayou Energy Center | Natural gas | 280 MW |
| Walter Bouldin Dam | Hydro | 225 MW |
| Martin Dam | Hydro | 211 MW |
About this data
From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 227 MW solar plant and a 227 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.
“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Alabama power plants · What Alabama actually generates