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Red Horse III

Solar power plant · Cochise County, Arizona

Nameplate capacity
30 MW
Rank in Arizona
#120
of 200 plants
In service since
2016
July 2016

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Red Horse III
County
Cochise County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.07%
Rank among solar plants in Arizona
#44 of 105
EIA plant code
60285

Generating units

Individual generating units at Red Horse III
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
RH3Solar Photovoltaic30 MW30 MW2016Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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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 30 MW solar plant and a 30 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 Arizona power plants · What Arizona actually generates