Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage System 📊👤

Status

operation

Country / State / Closest City

🇺🇸 usa / california / close to santa cruz

Dates

Capacity in MWh

730

Maximum Power in MW

182

Manufacturer

tesla

Type / Number of Packs / Cells

megapack / 256 /

Customer / Owner / Developer

PG&E / Pacific Gas & Electric Co. /

Use case

Link to google maps satellite view

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:36.807971+-121.781701

Coordinates

36.807971, -121.781701
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)

Notes

in 2020, 64mwh were added

Project website

Sources

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-megapack-battery-moss-landing-completion-video/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack

Internal / External id

7 / 62564

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 2023-02 report (Project first appeared in the 2020-09 report):

Plant Name / State

Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage System / CA

go live / power

2022-04 / 182MW

status / status verbose

operation / operation

Plant id / generator id

62564 / ELKHO

Entity name / entity id

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. / 14328

Changes:
2022-06
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete -> operation
2022-05
date: 2022-03 -> 2022-04 delayed by 1 month
2022-03
date: 2022-01 -> 2022-03 delayed by 2 months
2022-02
date: 2021-12 -> 2022-01 delayed by 1 month
2021-12
date: 2021-11 -> 2021-12 delayed by 1 month
2021-11
date: 2021-10 -> 2021-11 delayed by 1 month
2021-10
date: 2021-08 -> 2021-10 delayed by 2 months
2021-09
date: 2021-07 -> 2021-08 delayed by 1 month
2020-12
status: planning -> construction 🏗️
status_verbose: (L) Regulatory approvals pending. Not under construction -> (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete
date: 2021-03 -> 2021-07 delayed by 4 months