Big Bend 1 Solar and Battery Storage
Solar power plant · Hillsborough County, Florida
Nameplate capacity
32 MW
Rank in Florida
#264
of 346 plants
In service since
2017
February 2017
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Tampa Electric Co
- County
- Hillsborough County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.04%
- Rank among solar plants in Florida
- #181 of 225
- EIA plant code
- 69187
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solar Photovoltaic | 20 MW | 20 MW | 2017 | Operating |
| BESS1 | Batteries | 13 MW | 10 MW | 2019 | 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 Florida
| Bonnie Mine Solar | Solar | 38 MW |
| G W Ivey | Natural gas | 36 MW |
| Pasco Cnty Solid Waste Resource Recovery | Other | 31 MW |
| Gulf Coast Solar Center I | Solar | 30 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 32 MW solar plant and a 32 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 Florida power plants · What Florida actually generates