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Kohls San Bernardino Solar Facility

Solar power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 34.0947, -117.2668.

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Kohls San Bernardino Solar Facility is a 1 MW solar power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by Longroad Energy Services LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 1 GWh, it can supply roughly 400 homes. It ranks #9557 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 8.6% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

1MW installed capacity
1GWh reported / yr
400homes powered
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0057009.

Reported generation trend

2013: 2 GWh20132014: 2 GWh20142015: 2 GWh20152016: 1 GWh20162018: 1 GWh20182019: 1 GWh20192 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Longroad Energy Services LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.2°Cannual mean temp
800heating degree-days (base 18°C)
877cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
405 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 20 °CON: 15 °CND: 12 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 67% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 24/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.3% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3067 largest solar power plant of 3283 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 3283 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 37,970 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 34.0947, -117.2668 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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