High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant which is under construction near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Phoenix. It is being built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, and will have a total capacity of 280 megawatts (MW), which is enough to power 70,000 homes while avoiding around 475,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Its name is the Spanish term for "sunny spot".