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Groveland Solar

Solar power plant · Essex County, Massachusetts

Nameplate capacity
3.2 MW
Rank in Massachusetts
#297
of 686 plants
In service since
2012
December 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
RWE Clean Energy
County
Essex County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among solar plants in Massachusetts
#195 of 531
EIA plant code
57989

Generating units

Individual generating units at Groveland Solar
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GSMASolar Photovoltaic3.2 MW3.2 MW2012Operating

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 3.2 MW solar plant and a 3.2 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 Massachusetts power plants · What Massachusetts actually generates