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Copper Mountain Solar 2

Solar power plant · Clark County, Nevada

Nameplate capacity
154 MW
Rank in Nevada
#32
of 117 plants
In service since
2012
July 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
RWE Clean Energy
County
Clark County
Generating units
5
Share of state capacity
0.81%
Rank among solar plants in Nevada
#15 of 59
EIA plant code
58017

Generating units

Individual generating units at Copper Mountain Solar 2
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
PV03Solar Photovoltaic34 MW34 MW2012Operating
PV01Solar Photovoltaic30 MW30 MW2012Operating
PV02Solar Photovoltaic30 MW30 MW2012Operating
PV04Solar Photovoltaic30 MW30 MW2015Operating
PV05Solar Photovoltaic30 MW30 MW2015Operating

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 154 MW solar plant and a 154 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 Nevada power plants · What Nevada actually generates