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Greater Sandhill I

Solar power plant · Alamosa County, Colorado

Nameplate capacity
19 MW
Rank in Colorado
#99
of 326 plants
In service since
2010
September 2010

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Greater Sandhill I LLC
County
Alamosa County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.08%
Rank among solar plants in Colorado
#24 of 184
EIA plant code
57377

Generating units

Individual generating units at Greater Sandhill I
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GS-P1Solar Photovoltaic10 MW10 MW2010Operating
GS-P2Solar Photovoltaic9.0 MW9.0 MW2010Operating

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 19 MW solar plant and a 19 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