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Copper Mountain Solar 3

Solar power plant · Clark County, Nevada

Nameplate capacity

255 MW

Rank in Nevada

#20

of 117 plants

In service since

2014

May 2014

Details

Primary fuel: Solar
Technology: Solar Photovoltaic
Operator: RWE Clean Energy
County: Clark County
Generating units: 10
Share of state capacity: 1.35%
Rank among solar plants in Nevada: #7 of 59
EIA plant code: 58915

Generating units

Individual generating units at Copper Mountain Solar 3
Unit	Technology	Nameplate	Summer	Online	Status
4	Solar Photovoltaic	28 MW	28 MW	2014	Operating
2	Solar Photovoltaic	27 MW	27 MW	2014	Operating
1	Solar Photovoltaic	26 MW	26 MW	2014	Operating
3	Solar Photovoltaic	26 MW	26 MW	2014	Operating
6	Solar Photovoltaic	26 MW	26 MW	2014	Operating
7	Solar Photovoltaic	26 MW	26 MW	2014	Operating
8	Solar Photovoltaic	26 MW	26 MW	2014	Operating
5	Solar Photovoltaic	25 MW	25 MW	2014	Operating
9	Solar Photovoltaic	24 MW	24 MW	2015	Operating
10	Solar Photovoltaic	21 MW	21 MW	2015	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 Nevada

Townsite Solar Project Hybrid	Solar	270 MW
Silver State Solar Power South	Solar	260 MW
Copper Mountain Solar 5, LLC	Solar	252 MW
Dodge Flat	Solar	250 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 255 MW solar plant and a 255 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