Pier S Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project

Pier S Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project

Lighthouse Pier S, LLC formally known as Pier S Energy Storage LLC proposes to construct and operate a 70-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) on approximately 2.9 acres of the existing, privately-owned 18.03-acre power generation site on Pier S, consisting of installing approximately 100 individual fire-rated metal enclosures, each containing lithium-ion battery cells consolidated into racks, a direct current collection system, an alternating current distribution for auxiliary power, a generation-tie transmission line, fiber optic cables, supervisory control and data acquisition equipment, a communications system, cooling, safety, and monitoring systems, a power conversion system to connect the BESS, and a new 66 kilovolt (kv) substation to transform the voltage between the power conversion system and the Southern California Edison electrical transmission system. The existing, 66 kv Southern California Edison Long Beach Bus Substation located adjacent to the proposed Project site to the north would also be upgraded. To accommodate the BESS facility, a former warehouse/receiving building, locker building, fabrication/machine shop, and sections of abandoned concrete saltwater intake pipes would be demolished.

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Citywide, Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marin Region 7 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region 4 (RWQCB), California Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Colorado River Board, Office of Historic Preservation, San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 15, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 16, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 22, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 7, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance

Industrial (Sq. Ft. 191664, Acres 4.4, Employees 1)

Coastal Permit, Harbor Development Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire