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Solar farms in Illinois

Illinois has 228 solar farms: 3.4% of the US total of 6,611. That ranks #7 by count and #20 per person (1.79 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

#20

national rank (per capita)

228

solar farms

1.79

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.

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Illinois: 228 rows (CSV)All of the US (CSV)

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Named solar farms in Illinois include

Viking Solar (CSG) · Dodds (CSG) · Kent School Road Solar 1 · Schulte 2 Community Solar · Nostrand · Vulcan · Hurricane Creek (CSG) · Sullivan B Community Solar, LLC · Mt. Morris Solar CSG · Clendenin A Community Solar, LLC (CSG) · Rockford CS 1 · N Solon Road (North)

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