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UC Davis South Campus

Solar power plant · Yolo County, California

Nameplate capacity
13 MW
Rank in California
#786
of 1,897 plants
In service since
2015
March 2015

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Solar Star California XXXII, LLC
County
Yolo County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among solar plants in California
#269 of 937
EIA plant code
59872

Generating units

Individual generating units at UC Davis South Campus
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
UCD1Solar Photovoltaic13 MW13 MW2015Operating

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 13 MW solar plant and a 13 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