Papago Energy Storage ⚡️📊👤

Status

operation

Country / State / Closest City

🇺🇸 usa / arizona / Maricopa County

Dates

Capacity in MWh

1200

Maximum Power in MW

300

Manufacturer

Type / Number of Packs / Cells

/ /

Customer / Owner / Developer

Recurrent Energy / RE Papago LLC /

Use case

300MW solar farm support

Link to google maps satellite view

http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:33.481046+-113.03863

Coordinates

33.481046, -113.03863
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)

Notes

Project website

https://recurrentenergy.com/project/papago/

Sources

https://www.maricopa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/7254?fileID=56298

Internal / External id

75 / 66779

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 2025-09 report (Project first appeared in the 2024-06 report):

Plant Name / State

Papago Energy Storage / AZ

go live / power

2025-05 / 300MW

status / status verbose

operation / operation

Plant id / generator id

66779 / PPABA

Entity name / entity id

RE Papago LLC / 65751

Changes:
2025-07
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (TS) Construction complete, but not yet in commercial operation -> operation
2025-05
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> (TS) Construction complete, but not yet in commercial operation
2024-11
status_verbose: (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete -> (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete
2024-07
status: planning -> construction 🏗️
status_verbose: (L) Regulatory approvals pending. Not under construction -> (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete