Ridgely Energy Farm
Solar power plant · Lake County, Tennessee
Nameplate capacity
177 MW
Rank in Tennessee
#15
of 106 plants
In service since
2025
August 2025
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Leeward Asset Management, LLC
- County
- Lake County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.75%
- Rank among solar plants in Tennessee
- #1 of 52
- EIA plant code
- 65445
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIGPV | Solar Photovoltaic | 177 MW | 177 MW | 2025 | 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 Tennessee
| Pickwick Landing Dam | Hydro | 240 MW |
| Tennessee Eastman Operations | Coal | 194 MW |
| Watts Bar Hydro | Hydro | 175 MW |
| Chickamauga | Hydro | 160 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 177 MW solar plant and a 177 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 Tennessee power plants · What Tennessee actually generates