Aquamarine is a solar power facility with 250 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Kings County, California, registered as EIA Plant ID 62547. Project filings list 838,651 solar panels and 176 inverters for the facility. The facility interconnects at Gates at 230 kV.
EIA-reported operating capacity; nameplate, seasonal, AC/DC, and unit ratings may differ.
Primary generation technology.
Kings County · CAISO
230 kV · Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Solar Photovoltaic
Aquamarine is operating.
230 kV · Pacific Gas and Electric Company
CAISO
CAISO · Kings County
Similar plants ranked by technology, capacity, and distance.
Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQUAM | 250 MW 250 MW summer | Solar Photovoltaic Solar · PV | Sep 2021 | Operating |
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.
Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.
Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.
Drag organizations to explore the network. Select a node to pin its details and available page link.
Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
CIM and a joint-venture partner obtained rights to acquire more than 20,000 acres of drainage-impaired Central Valley farmland for clean-energy development. The source does not identify a separate acquisition of Aquamarine or a seller.
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
Construction of the 250 MW Aquamarine project began as the first utility-scale project in Westlands Solar Park.
Valley Clean Energy Alliance approved a PPA with Aquamarine Westside, LLC for a 50 MW share of the 250 MW Aquamarine project. The approved term was 15 years.
CIM announced that debt and tax-equity financing had closed; Deutsche Bank acted as lead arranger of the debt financing.
EIA-860 lists generator AQUAM with this operating date.
CIM reported that construction concluded at year-end 2021, on time and on budget, and that Aquamarine became fully operational.
CIM held a public event commemorating completion and commercial operation of the 250 MW project.
Answered from the published record above. Questions whose inputs this profile does not carry are omitted rather than estimated.
Aquamarine has a reported capacity of 250 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.
Aquamarine is a Solar Photovoltaic facility in Kings County, CA, participating in the CAISO market.
Aquamarine is in Kings County, CA, inside the CAISO balancing area.
Aquamarine is operated by Aqua according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
Aquamarine reported 648.1 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-06. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
Aquamarine interconnects at Gates, on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company system.
By capacity, Aquamarine ranks #76 of 7,234 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #16 of 939 in CA.
Plants within 25 km, nearest first, regardless of technology. Proximity is straight-line distance between mapped plant coordinates; it does not by itself establish a shared point of interconnection.
