Kapolei Energy Storage 📊👤

Status

operation

Country / State / Closest City

🇺🇸 usa / hawaii /

Dates

Capacity in MWh

565

Maximum Power in MW

185

Manufacturer

tesla

Type / Number of Packs / Cells

megapack / 158 /

Customer / Owner / Developer

Hawaiian Electric / Kapolei Energy Storage I, LLC / Plus Power

Use case

island, black start

Link to google maps satellite view

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:21.328169+-158.105085

Coordinates

21.328169, -158.105085
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)

Notes

Project website

https://www.kapoleienergystorage.com/overview

Sources

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-565-mwh-megapack-project-in-hawaii-celebrates-groundbreaking-ceremony
https://twitter.com/Tesla_Megapack/status/1745499330612748482

Internal / External id

1 / 66067

U.S. EIA data

The government data source for this battery is the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/
Info from the 2024-02 report (Project first appeared in the 2023-01 report):

Plant Name / State

Kapolei Energy Storage / HI

go live / power

2023-12 / 185MW

status / status verbose

operation / operation

Plant id / generator id

66067 / KES1

Entity name / entity id

Kapolei Energy Storage I, LLC / 65234

Changes:
2024-02
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (TS) Construction complete, but not yet in commercial operation -> operation
2023-10
date: 2023-08 -> 2023-12 delayed by 4 months
2023-08
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> (TS) Construction complete, but not yet in commercial operation
2023-07
date: 2023-07 -> 2023-08 delayed by 1 month
2023-06
date: 2023-06 -> 2023-07 delayed by 1 month
2023-02
date: 2023-05 -> 2023-06 delayed by 1 month