Lancaster Area Battery
Battery storage power plant · Los Angeles County, California
Details
- Primary fuel
- Battery storage
- Technology
- Batteries
- Operator
- AES Distributed Energy
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.12%
- Rank among battery storage plants in California
- #22 of 142
- EIA plant code
- 66050
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAB | Batteries | 127 MW | 127 MW | 2022 | 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
| Voyager Wind II | Wind | 129 MW |
| American Kings Solar, LLC | Solar | 128 MW |
| AVEP BESS | Battery storage | 126 MW |
| Ivanpah 1 | Solar | 126 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 127 MW solar plant and a 127 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