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Kit Carson

Solar power plant · Taos County, New Mexico

Nameplate capacity
1.3 MW
Rank in New Mexico
#158
of 169 plants
In service since
2012
June 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Terraform Arcadia
County
Taos County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among solar plants in New Mexico
#95 of 105
EIA plant code
58240

Generating units

Individual generating units at Kit Carson
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
PV_KCSolar Photovoltaic1.3 MW1.3 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 1.3 MW solar plant and a 1.3 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 New Mexico power plants · What New Mexico actually generates