Arica Solar — 399 MW hybrid plant, Riverside County, CA

Arica Solar — 399 MW hybrid plant, Riverside County, CA · Ask the Grid

Generation and physical site

EIA plant 65744 · Inventory for Sep 2026.

Reported operating nameplate by technology

Battery storage: 136 MW
Solar: 263 MW

Operating generators only. Battery power is in MW; stored energy is in MWh. These ratings do not establish a shared export limit.

Generator records (2)

EIA generator status and nameplate capacity for Arica Solar
Generator	Technology	Status	Power (MW)	Energy (MWh)
ARCBA	Batteries	Operating	136	544
ARCPV	Solar Photovoltaic	Operating	263	Unknown

Physical map location · OpenStreetMap: 33.72644, -115.26504
Filed location · EIA: 33.70100, -115.31630

Sources and observation dates

Inventory source: EIA-860M workbook (preliminary)
EIA reporting month: Sep 2026
EIA retrieved: Oct 24, 2026
OSM extract: Oct 9, 2026
OSM last mapped edit: Jan 6, 2026
Map prepared: Oct 24, 2026
Field verification: Not reported

Reporting month describes the inventory. Retrieval and map preparation describe processing; an OSM edit does not establish an in-service date.

EIA source inventory

Units and generators

Current generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.

Generator	Capacity	Technology	Operation	Status
ARCBA	136 MW 136 MW summer	Batteries BA	Mar 2024	Operating
ARCPV	263 MW 263 MW summer	Solar Photovoltaic PV	Mar 2024	Operating

Commercial, land, and environmental record

Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.

Transactions and agreements

PPA Approval

Jun 3, 2021

Clean Power Alliance approved a 15-year contract with Clearway for Arica covering 93.5 MW of solar and 71 MW of storage (284 MWh capacity). No transaction price disclosed.

93.5 MW contracted15 yearsClean Power Alliance · Clearway Energy Group

Clean Power Alliance Inks Four Long-Term Contracts to Supply Over 175,000 Homes with Clean Energy » California Community Choice Association (CalCCA)

Land and environmental record

Biological-Resource Permit

Nov 19, 2021

CDFW discretionary approvals: CESA Incidental Take Permit and Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement

CDFW CEQA notice identifies issuance of California Endangered Species Act Incidental Take Permit and Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreements as agency discretionary actions. Individual issued permit numbers not stated in retrieved record.

CEQA Notices | Arica Solar Project- Draft Environmental Impact Report and Appendices

Legal Land Description

Oct 2, 2020

Arica Solar legal description: Township 5 South, Range 16 East, Section 13, southwest quarter

Project notice describes Arica Solar as T. 5 S., R. 16 E., Section 13, SW1/4, totaling approximately 2,000 acres of BLM-administered land.

Source

Site Acreage (CEQA Notice)

Aug 6, 2021

CEQA project site: 1,355 acres

CDFW CEQA notice states that Arica facility and associated infrastructure occupy 1,355 acres in Riverside County. This is the project footprint in the CEQA notice, distinct from the 2,000-acre BLM right-of-way acreage.

CEQA Notices | Arica Solar Project- Draft Environmental Impact Report and Appendices

Stormwater And Construction Compliance

Jan 11, 2022

Construction SWPPP and recurring compliance reporting required

Water-quality approval required development and implementation of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, monthly reports during construction, annual reports for July-through-June fiscal year, and request for notice of project completion.

Order R7-2022-0002 Arica Solar Project

Water-Quality Compensatory Mitigation

Jan 11, 2022

At least 90.3 acres of ephemeral desert-wash habitat preservation required as compensatory mitigation

Order R7-2022-0002 requires permittee to provide compensatory mitigation by preserving at least 90.3 acres of ephemeral desert-wash habitat within the Chuckwalla or Colorado Hydrologic Unit watersheds.

Order R7-2022-0002 Arica Solar Project

Mapped facility footprint

Mapped infrastructure geometry associated with this asset.© OpenStreetMap contributors · relation/20052423

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

Dec 16, 2021
Dec 16, 2021
Output ContractingClearway Co...
Clearway announced that the entire Arica project output was contracted under separate PPAs with Clean Power Alliance, Peninsula Clean Energy, and PepsiCo for the then-planned 270 MW solar and 121 MW storage configuration.
2022
2022
Planned Construction StartClearway Co...
Clearway stated that Arica construction would begin in 2022 under a project labor agreement; the project was being developed on land under BLM jurisdiction.
Apr 6, 2023
Apr 6, 2023
Construction Financing CloseClearway En...
Clearway closed approximately $1 billion of construction loans and project letters of credit for Arica and Victory Pass combined, with committed tax equity and long-term common equity also arranged.
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
Generators enter operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator ARCBA, generator ARCPV with this operating date.
Apr 17, 2024
Apr 17, 2024
Project placed in serviceSource
Clearway announced that the Arica and Victory Pass solar-and-storage projects had been placed in service.

Sources

PublisherReferenceType

U.S. Energy Information AdministrationEIA-860 generator inventoryFederal registry

U.S. Energy Information AdministrationEIA-923 generation filingsFederal filing

ceqanet.lci.ca.govArica and Victory Pass Solar Projects - CEQAnet - CA.govregulatory

Common questions about Arica Solar

Answered from the published record above. Questions whose inputs this profile does not carry are omitted rather than estimated.

How big is Arica Solar?

Arica Solar reports 136 MW battery storage + 263 MW solar of operating nameplate capacity. These technology ratings do not establish a common export limit. Source: EIA Sep 2026.

What kind of plant is Arica Solar?

Arica Solar is a Batteries, Solar Photovoltaic facility in Riverside County, CA, participating in the CAISO market.

Where is Arica Solar located?

Arica Solar is in Riverside County, CA, inside the CAISO balancing area.

Who operates Arica Solar?

Arica Solar is operated by Arica Solar, LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.

How much electricity does Arica Solar generate?

Arica Solar reported 725.3 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-07. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.

Where does Arica Solar connect to the grid?

Arica Solar interconnects at Red Bluff Substation, on the Southern California Edison (SCE) system.

How does Arica Solar compare to other plants?

By capacity, Arica Solar ranks #74 of 7,597 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #14 of 972 in CA.

Co-located assets

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.

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