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Solar farms in California

California has 893 solar farms: 13.5% of the US total of 6,611. That ranks #1 by count and #14 per person (2.26 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

#14

national rank (per capita)

893

solar farms

2.26

per 100k residents

The data

Source: U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database v4.0 (USGS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), 2026. Every ground-mounted facility of 1 MW or more in the database, at its own coordinates. Rooftop and small community solar are not in this database.

Licence: U.S. government data: no copyright, free to reuse

California: 893 rows (CSV)All of the US (CSV)

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Named solar farms in California include

RB Inyokern Solar WDAT 1281 (CSG) · RB Inyokern Solar WDAT 1203 (CSG) · West Village Solar - Array 1Community Solar · Tulare CSG LLC · Kings CSG 3 LLC Community Solar · Fresno Community Solar · Manteca Land PV · Delano Land 1 · Visalia Solar · PAC Aviation Solar · Cawelo Water District Solar · Arrache 4013

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