Vallecito 📊👤

Status

operation

Country / State / Closest City

🇺🇸 usa / california / carpinteria / santa barbara county

Dates

Capacity in MWh

40

Maximum Power in MW

10

Manufacturer

tesla

Type / Number of Packs / Cells

megapack / 15 /

Customer / Owner / Developer

Clean Coalition / Viridity Energy Solutions, Inc. /

Use case

Link to google maps satellite view

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:34.408083+-119.512937

Coordinates

34.408083, -119.512937
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)

Notes

Project website

Sources

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-begins-installation-of-15-megapacks-at-carpinteria-santa-barbara-county
https://clean-coalition.org/news/vallecito-energy-storage-resilience-vesr-project-online-december/

Internal / External id

11 / 62801

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 2022-02 report (Project first appeared in the 2020-09 report):

Plant Name / State

Vallecito / CA

go live / power

2021-02 / 10MW

status / status verbose

operation / operation

Plant id / generator id

62801 / ORN34

Entity name / entity id

Viridity Energy Solutions, Inc. / 61522

Changes:
2021-04
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> operation
date: 2021-03 -> 2021-02 accelerated by 1 month
2021-02
date: 2020-12 -> 2021-03 delayed by 3 months