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Status
operation
Country / State / Closest City
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ usa / texas /
Dates
First heard 2024-09
Construction start 2023-07-19
Operation start 2024-08
Estimated start
Construction time 13 months -> 19 MWh/m
Capacity in MWh
250
Maximum Power in MW
125
Manufacturer
tesla
Type / Number of Packs / Cells
megapack 2XL / 68 /
Customer / Owner / Developer
/ Giga Texas Energy LLC /
Use case
Link to google maps satellite view
http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:30.230756+-97.615973
Coordinates
30.230756, -97.615973
βœ… Coords are exact (+/- 50m)
Notes
used date of tweet for the operation start date
Project website
Sources
https://twitter.com/Tesla_Megapack/status/1681503667030212608
https://twitter.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/1654619434261135360
https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1682834256928571392
https://x.com/Tesla_Megapack/status/1791530954261172681
Internal / External id
1176 / 67860

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 2025-01 report (Project first appeared in the 2024-09 report):

Plant Name / State
GFTX BESS / TX
go live / power
2024-08 / 125MW
status / status verbose
operation / operation
Plant id / generator id
67860 / GFTX
Entity name / entity id
Giga Texas Energy LLC / 66433
Changes:
2024-10
status: construction -> operation 🍾 πŸŽ‰ 🍸
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> operation