Spanish Peaks Solar
Solar power plant · Las Animas County, Colorado
Nameplate capacity
140 MW
Rank in Colorado
#54
of 326 plants
In service since
2024
December 2024
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Spanish Peaks Solar LLC
- County
- Las Animas County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.61%
- Rank among solar plants in Colorado
- #9 of 184
- EIA plant code
- 62379
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47301 | Solar Photovoltaic | 140 MW | 140 MW | 2024 | 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 Colorado
| Panorama Wind, LLC | Wind | 145 MW |
| Valmont Combustion Turbine Project | Natural gas | 142 MW |
| Burlington (CO) | Other | 129 MW |
| Comanche Solar | Solar | 120 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 140 MW solar plant and a 140 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