Baldy Mesa Solar & Storage πŸ“πŸ“ŠπŸ“

Status
operation
Country / State / Closest City
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ usa / california /
Dates
First heard 2023-05
Construction start 2023-09
Operation start 2024-05
Estimated start 2023-12
Construction time 8 months -> 18 MWh/m
Capacity in MWh
150
πŸ“ This is an estimate
Maximum Power in MW
75
Manufacturer
Type / Number of Packs / Cells
/ /
Customer / Owner / Developer
/ AES Clean Energy /
Use case
Link to google maps satellite view
http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&t=k&q=loc:40.91718668342877+-121.15075154591771
Coordinates
40.91718668342877, -121.15075154591771
πŸ“ Coords are a guess. Only the state is known
Notes

Project website
Sources
Internal / External id
957 / 66598

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 2023-05 report):

Plant Name / State
Baldy Mesa Solar & Storage / CA
go live / power
2024-05 / 75MW
status / status verbose
operation / operation
Plant id / generator id
66598 / BDMSS
Entity name / entity id
AES Clean Energy / 64904
Changes:
2024-12
status: construction -> operation 🍾 πŸŽ‰ 🍸
status_verbose: (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete -> operation
date: 2025-10 -> 2024-05 accelerated by 17 months
2023-11
date: 2023-12 -> 2025-10 delayed by 22 months
2023-09
status: planning -> construction πŸ—οΈ
status_verbose: (T) Regulatory approvals received. Not under construction -> (V) Under construction, more than 50 percent complete