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Maple Flats

Solar power plant · Clay County, Illinois

Nameplate capacity
250 MW
Rank in Illinois
#49
of 580 plants
In service since
2024
November 2024

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Invenergy Services LLC
County
Clay County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.47%
Rank among solar plants in Illinois
#3 of 383
EIA plant code
66191

Generating units

Individual generating units at Maple Flats
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
65015Solar Photovoltaic250 MW250 MW2024Operating

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 250 MW solar plant and a 250 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 Illinois power plants · What Illinois actually generates