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Prairie Center Energy LLC

Battery storage power plant · Adams County, Colorado

Nameplate capacity
35 MW
Rank in Colorado
#83
of 326 plants
In service since
2024
December 2024

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Whetstone Power Operations LLC
County
Adams County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.15%
Rank among battery storage plants in Colorado
#2 of 14
EIA plant code
68058

Generating units

Individual generating units at Prairie Center Energy LLC
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
PCEBSBatteries35 MW34 MW2024Operating

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 35 MW solar plant and a 35 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 Colorado power plants · What Colorado actually generates