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Elevation Solar C

Solar power plant · Los Angeles County, California

Nameplate capacity
40 MW
Rank in California
#506
of 1,897 plants
In service since
2016
December 2016

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
AES Distributed Energy
County
Los Angeles County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.04%
Rank among solar plants in California
#138 of 937
EIA plant code
59964

Generating units

Individual generating units at Elevation Solar C
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ELVSCSolar Photovoltaic40 MW39 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 40 MW solar plant and a 40 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