Horizon Solar
Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) · Frio County · ERCOT
Horizon Solar is a solar power facility with 200 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Frio County, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 65308. Leeward Asset Management, LLC is the registered plant entity or operator. The plant's generating configuration is solar photovoltaic (utility-scale, ground-mounted PV). The facility interconnects at Pearsall substation at 138 kV.
Overview
Key fields
- Reported capacity
- 200 MW
EIA-reported operating capacity; nameplate, seasonal, AC/DC, and unit ratings may differ.
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
Primary generation technology.
- Registry anchor
- Plant 65308
Leeward Asset Management, LLC · Frio County · ERCOT
- Operating status
- Operating
Horizon Solar is operating.
- Grid connection
- Pearsall substation
138 kV · South Texas Electric Cooperative
- Resource stack
- 1 resource
HRZN_SLR_UNIT1
Profile
- Grid role
- Utility-scale solar generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.
- Grid connection
- Pearsall substation · 138 kV · South Texas Electric Cooperative.
- Physical build
- 200 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic project near Pearsall (Frio County), Texas, sited on ~1,640–1,650 acres. Public project materials and the Chapter 313 application state the plant is planned/constructed as a tracker-mounted PV array with central inverters and project substation; public sources name First Solar as the PV-module supplier and Nextracker (NX Horizon) as the tracker supplier.
Structured profile
- Reported capacity
- 200 MW
Solar Photovoltaic
- Operating status
- operating
Horizon Solar is operating.
- Interconnection
- Pearsall substation
138 kV · South Texas Electric Cooperative
- Location
- Frio County
ERCOT
- Operator
- Leeward Asset Management, LLC
- Asset role
- solar
ERCOT · Frio County
- Owner
- Leeward Asset Management, LLC
Units and generators
Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HRZNS | 200 MW 200 MW summer | Solar Photovoltaic Solar · PV | Dec 2023 | Operating |
Performance
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
Peer context
- Technology capacity
- 200 MW
- National rank
- #140
- TX rank
- #64
Monthly generation
Download CSVMonthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
ERCOT disclosed dispatch
1 ERCOT market resource · Solar
Generation
3 mo through May 22, 2026Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Output by hourlocal time · 90 days through May 22, 2026
Latest disclosed outputhourly · 2 weeks ending May 22, 2026
Generation from ERCOT's 60-Day SCED Disclosure (≈60-day lag), summed over this site's market resources.
Grid and market context
Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.
Market registration
ERCOT public disclosuresOperating context
ERCOT market recordsInterconnection record
ERCOT GIS ReportMatched to the latest available ERCOT generation-interconnection queue record. Queue status and completion dates describe the queue record; operating status is verified separately against plant and market registrations.
Nearby substations
HIFLD infrastructure inventoryCommercial, land, and environmental record
Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.
Land and environmental record
Related parties and identifiers
Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.
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Parties and identifiers
| Relationship | Entity | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Leeward Asset Management, LLC | Registered entity associated with Horizon Solar. |
| Market resources | HRZN_SLR_UNIT1 | Linked ERCOT resources. |
| Grid selection | plant:plant-65308 | Canonical asset page /ercot/assets/plant/horizon-solar. |
Reporting portfolio
| Largest reported plants | Capacity | State |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Creek Wind | 300.5 MW | CO |
| Chaparral Springs | 262 MW | CA |
| Sweetwater Wind 4 LLC | 241 MW | TX |
| Aragonne Wind LLC | 235 MW | NM |
| Morrow Lake Solar | 200 MW | TX |
| Horizon SolarCurrent | 200 MW | TX |
| Big Plain Solar, LLC | 196 MW | OH |
| White Wing Solar | 179 MW | AZ |
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
View full reporting portfolioTimeline and sources
Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
Project timeline
- Financing ClosedLeeward Ren...
Leeward Renewable Energy closed approximately $75 million in construction to term financing from MUFG Bank Ltd. and an approximately $105 million tax equity commitment from Wells Fargo.
- Generator enters operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator HRZNS with this operating date.
- Latest disclosed generation interval
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
Sources
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