Salt Creek Township Solar, LLC
Solar power plant · Mason County, Illinois
Nameplate capacity
50 MW
Rank in Illinois
#131
of 580 plants
In service since
2025
January 2025
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Birch Creek Power, LLC
- County
- Mason County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.09%
- Rank among solar plants in Illinois
- #25 of 383
- EIA plant code
- 66633
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PV | Solar Photovoltaic | 50 MW | 50 MW | 2025 | 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 Illinois
| Crescent Ridge | Wind | 53 MW |
| Kimmel Road Solar, LLC | Solar | 50 MW |
| Coffeen Solar BESS | Solar | 46 MW |
| ExxonMobil Oil Joliet Refinery | Natural gas | 43 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 50 MW solar plant and a 50 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