Beaumont BESS
Battery storage power plant · Riverside County, California
Details
- Primary fuel
- Battery storage
- Technology
- Batteries
- Operator
- Terra-Gen Operating Co-BESS 2
- County
- Riverside County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.11%
- Rank among battery storage plants in California
- #26 of 142
- EIA plant code
- 66461
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Batteries | 117 MW | 100 MW | 2024 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in California
| Caribou 2 | Hydro | 118 MW |
| Keswick | Hydro | 117 MW |
| Thermalito | Hydro | 115 MW |
| Edwards Sanborn E5 | Solar | 115 MW |
About this data
From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 117 MW solar plant and a 117 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.
“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All California power plants · What California actually generates