True North

Solar power plant · Essex County, Massachusetts

Nameplate capacity
4.8 MW
Rank in Massachusetts
#189
of 686 plants
In service since
2012
August 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
CD US Solar MT1 LLC
County
Essex County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among solar plants in Massachusetts
#103 of 531
EIA plant code
59390

Generating units

Individual generating units at True North
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TNE1Solar Photovoltaic4.8 MW3.4 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 4.8 MW solar plant and a 4.8 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