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Desert Sunlight 250, LLC

Solar power plant · Riverside County, California

Nameplate capacity

250 MW

Rank in California

#106

of 1,897 plants

In service since

2013

November 2013

Details

Primary fuel: Solar
Technology: Solar Photovoltaic
Operator: NextEra Energy Desert Sunlight 250, LLC
County: Riverside County
Generating units: 9
Share of state capacity: 0.23%
Rank among solar plants in California: #41 of 937
EIA plant code: 58542

Generating units

Individual generating units at Desert Sunlight 250, LLC
Unit	Technology	Nameplate	Summer	Online	Status
DSL12	Solar Photovoltaic	39 MW	39 MW	2013	Operating
DSL13	Solar Photovoltaic	39 MW	39 MW	2014	Operating
DSL17	Solar Photovoltaic	29 MW	29 MW	2013	Operating
DSL18	Solar Photovoltaic	29 MW	29 MW	2014	Operating
DSL14	Solar Photovoltaic	27 MW	27 MW	2014	Operating
DSL19	Solar Photovoltaic	25 MW	25 MW	2014	Operating
DSL20	Solar Photovoltaic	25 MW	25 MW	2013	Operating
DSL16	Solar Photovoltaic	23 MW	23 MW	2013	Operating
DSL15	Solar Photovoltaic	14 MW	14 MW	2014	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 California

Victory Pass	Solar	250 MW
California Valley Solar Ranch	Solar	250 MW
Edwards Sanborn E4	Solar	249 MW
Crockett Cogen Project	Natural gas	247 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 250 MW solar plant and a 250 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 California power plants · What California actually generates