Shakes Solar
Cypress Creek Renewables · Dimmit County · ERCOT
Shakes Solar is a solar power facility with 200 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Dimmit County, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 65333. Cypress Creek Renewables is the public owner or sponsor. PCL Construction describes Shakes Solar as the largest solar facility PCL has constructed in the United States. Its grid role is settlement-only distributed generator.
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 65333
Cypress Creek Renewables · Dimmit County · ERCOT
- Operating status
- Operating
Shakes Solar is operating.
- Resource stack
- 1 resource
MCLNSLR_UNIT1
Profile
- Grid role
- Utility-scale solar generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.
- Context
- PCL Construction describes Shakes Solar as the largest solar facility PCL has constructed in the United States.
Structured profile
- Reported capacity
- 200 MW
Solar Photovoltaic
- Operating status
- operating
Shakes Solar is operating.
- Location
- Dimmit County
ERCOT
- Operator
- Cypress Creek Renewables
- Asset role
- solar
ERCOT · Dimmit County
- Owner
- Cypress Creek Renewables
Multiple corpus items explicitly identify Cypress Creek Renewables in relation to the Shakes project.
Units and generators
Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 785 | 200 MW 200 MW summer | Solar Photovoltaic Solar · PV | Jun 2022 | 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 recordsNearby 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.
Financing
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 | Owner / developer associated with Shakes Solar. | |
| Tax equity investor | Named as the tax-equity provider at financial close (Morgan Stanley acted through a subsidiary). | |
| Portfolio financier | Financing covers a portfolio that includes Shakes Solar. | |
| Market resources | MCLNSLR_UNIT1 | Linked ERCOT resources. |
| Grid selection | plant:plant-65333 | Canonical asset page /ercot/assets/plant/shakes-solar. |
Reporting portfolio
| Largest reported plants | Capacity | State |
|---|---|---|
| Zier Solar | 200.4 MW | TX |
| Shakes SolarCurrent | 200 MW | TX |
| Brazos Bend BESS, LLC | 100 MW | TX |
| Innovative Solar 46 | 78.5 MW | NC |
| Bay Tree | 70.1 MW | NC |
| Shoe Creek Solar, LLC | 65 MW | NC |
| Innovative Solar 43, LLC | 50.8 MW | NC |
| Bladen Solar | 50 MW | NC |
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
- Financial CloseCypress Cre...
Cypress Creek announced financial close for Shakes; a Morgan Stanley subsidiary acted as tax-equity provider and Nord/LB, Rabobank, Helaba and National Bank of Canada were named as project debt providers.
- Generator enters operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator 785 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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