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Walnut Grove Demonstration Plant

Battery storage power plant · Leake County, Mississippi

Nameplate capacity
3.0 MW
Rank in Mississippi
#61
of 64 plants
In service since
2023
July 2023

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Mississippi Power Co
County
Leake County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among battery storage plants in Mississippi
#1 of 1
EIA plant code
65697

Generating units

Individual generating units at Walnut Grove Demonstration Plant
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1ABatteries1.5 MW1.5 MW2023Operating
1BSolar Photovoltaic1.5 MW1.5 MW2023Operating

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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ERDCNatural gas3.2 MW
SR HoustonSolar3.1 MW
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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 3.0 MW solar plant and a 3.0 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 Mississippi power plants · What Mississippi actually generates