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Danville BESS 1

Battery storage power plant · Danville City County, Virginia

Nameplate capacity
11 MW
Rank in Virginia
#164
of 261 plants
In service since
2022
November 2022

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Doc Brown LLC
County
Danville City County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among battery storage plants in Virginia
#4 of 5
EIA plant code
65499

Generating units

Individual generating units at Danville BESS 1
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
90909Batteries11 MW11 MW2022Operating

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 11 MW solar plant and a 11 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 Virginia power plants · What Virginia actually generates