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Prairie Solar (VA)

Solar power plant · Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Nameplate capacity
20 MW
Rank in Virginia
#112
of 261 plants
In service since
2025
December 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Solar
Technology
Solar Photovoltaic
Operator
Prairie Solar, LLC (VA)
County
Isle of Wight County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.06%
Rank among solar plants in Virginia
#59 of 142
EIA plant code
67219

Generating units

Individual generating units at Prairie Solar (VA)
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ENX21Solar Photovoltaic20 MW20 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 20 MW solar plant and a 20 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 Virginia power plants · What Virginia actually generates