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Hemmingway BESS

Battery storage power plant · Owyhee County, Idaho

Nameplate capacity
116 MW
Rank in Idaho
#17
of 155 plants
In service since
2025
March 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Idaho Power Co
County
Owyhee County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
1.76%
Rank among battery storage plants in Idaho
#2 of 9
EIA plant code
66325

Generating units

Individual generating units at Hemmingway BESS
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Batteries80 MW80 MW2025Operating
HGWP2Batteries36 MW36 MW2025Operating

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 116 MW solar plant and a 116 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 Idaho power plants · What Idaho actually generates