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San Diego International Airport BESS

Battery storage power plant · San Diego County, California

Nameplate capacity
2.0 MW
Rank in California
#1422
of 1,897 plants
In service since
2021
June 2021

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
County
San Diego County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.00%
Rank among battery storage plants in California
#123 of 142
EIA plant code
62754

Generating units

Individual generating units at San Diego International Airport BESS
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
BABatteries2.0 MW2.0 MW2021Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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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 2.0 MW solar plant and a 2.0 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