Lee County Solid Waste Energy
Other power plant · Lee County, Florida
Nameplate capacity
59 MW
Rank in Florida
#242
of 346 plants
In service since
1994
September 1994
Details
- Primary fuel
- Other
- Technology
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Operator
- Lee County Board-Commissioners
- County
- Lee County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.07%
- Rank among other plants in Florida
- #18 of 41
- EIA plant code
- 52010
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Municipal Solid Waste | 39 MW | 39 MW | 1994 | Operating |
| GEN2 | Municipal Solid Waste | 20 MW | 16 MW | 2007 | Operating |
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 59 MW solar plant and a 59 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