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Black Hollow Sun

Solar power plant · Weld County, Colorado

Nameplate capacity
150 MW
Rank in Colorado
#49
of 326 plants
In service since
2025
October 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Contour Global
County
Weld County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.65%
Rank among solar plants in Colorado
#7 of 184
EIA plant code
64745

Generating units

Individual generating units at Black Hollow Sun
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
BHS01Solar Photovoltaic150 MW150 MW2025Operating

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 150 MW solar plant and a 150 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 Colorado power plants · What Colorado actually generates