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Brightside

Solar power plant · Bee County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
51 MW
Rank in Texas
#615
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2022
May 2022

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Luminant Generation Company LLC
County
Bee County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among solar plants in Texas
#149 of 238
EIA plant code
63223

Generating units

Individual generating units at Brightside
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
UNIT1Solar Photovoltaic51 MW51 MW2022Operating

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 51 MW solar plant and a 51 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 Texas power plants · What Texas actually generates