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Hornet Solar (TX)

Solar power plant · Swisher County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
600 MW
Rank in Texas
#74
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2025
April 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Vesper Energy Development LLC
County
Swisher County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.30%
Rank among solar plants in Texas
#3 of 238
EIA plant code
65463

Generating units

Individual generating units at Hornet Solar (TX)
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
HRNETSolar Photovoltaic600 MW600 MW2025Operating

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 600 MW solar plant and a 600 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