Sierra Estrella Energy Storage ❤️📊👤
Status
operation
Country / State / Closest City
🇺🇸 usa / arizona /
Dates
| First heard |
2023-03 |
| Construction start |
2023-09 |
| Operation start |
2024-05 |
| Estimated start |
2024 |
| Construction time |
8 months -> 125 MWh/m
|
Capacity in MWh
1000
Maximum Power in MW
250
Manufacturer
tesla
Type / Number of Packs / Cells
megapack / 276 /
Customer / Owner / Developer
Salt River Project / Sierra Estrella Energy Storage, LLC / Plus Power
Use case
Link to google maps satellite view
http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:33.410648+-112.313765
Coordinates
33.410648, -112.313765
✅ Coords are exact (+/- 50m)
Notes
got the location from the map on the projects page / nr of megapacks from the pdf
Project website
https://www.sierraestrellaenergystorage.com/about
Sources
https://www.sierraestrellaenergystorage.com/s/01_11-07-2022_READ-ONLY_Sierra-Estrella-LS-208_FullSize.pdf
https://electrek.co/2024/06/27/tesla-megapack-project-giant-online-arizona/
Internal / External id
851 / 66334
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
2024-07 report (Project first appeared in the
2023-03 report):
Plant Name / State
Sierra Estrella Energy Storage / AZ
go live / power
2024-05 / 250MW
status / status verbose
operation / operation
Plant id / generator id
66334 / BESS3
Entity name / entity id
Sierra Estrella Energy Storage, LLC / 65418
Changes:
2024-07
status: construction -> operation 🍾 🎉 🍸
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> operation
date: 2024-06 -> 2024-05 accelerated by
1 month
2024-02
status_verbose: (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete -> (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete
2023-09
status: planning -> construction 🏗️
status_verbose: (T) Regulatory approvals received. Not under construction -> (U) Under construction, less than or equal to 50 percent complete
2023-08
status_verbose: (P) Planned for installation, but regulatory approvals not initiated -> (T) Regulatory approvals received. Not under construction