Manatee Solar Energy Center 📊👤

Status

operation

Country / State / Closest City

🇺🇸 usa / florida / Parrish / Manatee County

Dates

Capacity in MWh

900

Maximum Power in MW

409

Manufacturer

Type / Number of Packs / Cells

/ /

Customer / Owner / Developer

Florida Power and Light (FPL) / Florida Power & Light Co /

Use case

solar farm support

Link to google maps satellite view

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:27.598383+-82.349213

Coordinates

27.598383, -82.349213
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)

Notes

Already 75% complete in August 2021, 132 shipping containers

Project website

Sources

https://www.world-energy.org/article/19846.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbvXAS9buQ
https://www.energy-storage.news/work-begins-on-409mw-900mwh-florida-battery-project-to-ease-natural-gas-plants-into-retirement/

Internal / External id

71 / 60014

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

Manatee Solar Energy Center / FL

go live / power

2021-11 / 409MW

status / status verbose

operation / operation

Plant id / generator id

60014 / BMS

Entity name / entity id

Florida Power & Light Co / 6452

Changes:
2022-01
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> operation
2021-08
status_verbose: (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete -> (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete
2021-01
status: planning -> construction 🏗️
status_verbose: (P) Planned for installation, but regulatory approvals not initiated -> (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete