Download coordinates as: The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 500 megawatts (MW) in current net capacity.
[2][3][4][5][6] The size of photovoltaic power stations has increased progressively over the last decade with frequent new capacity records.
In August 2012, Agua Caliente Solar Project in Arizona reached 247 MW only to be passed by three larger plants in 2013.
[7][8] These two plants were superseded by a new world's largest facility in June 2015 when the 579 MWAC Solar Star project went online in the Antelope Valley region of Los Angeles County, California.
[10] As with other forms of power generation, there are important regional habitat modification problems, such as the heat island effect, and the resulting stress to local threatened species.