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Cottonwood Bayou Storage

Battery storage power plant · Brazoria County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
150 MW
Rank in Texas
#423
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2026
January 2026

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Cottonwood Bayou Storage, LLC
County
Brazoria County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.07%
Rank among battery storage plants in Texas
#37 of 211
EIA plant code
69251

Generating units

Individual generating units at Cottonwood Bayou Storage
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
CTWSTBatteries150 MW150 MW2026Operating

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 150 MW solar plant and a 150 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 Texas power plants · What Texas actually generates