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NIST Solar

Solar power plant · Montgomery County, Maryland

Nameplate capacity
4.0 MW
Rank in Maryland
#72
of 234 plants
In service since
2018
December 2018

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Luminace Solar MC, LLC
County
Montgomery County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among solar plants in Maryland
#35 of 187
EIA plant code
62208

Generating units

Individual generating units at NIST Solar
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
PV1Solar Photovoltaic4.0 MW4.0 MW2018Operating

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 4.0 MW solar plant and a 4.0 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 Maryland power plants · What Maryland actually generates