# Walter C Beckjord

PJM asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/walter-c-beckjord

Deriva Energy Beckjord Storage LLC - Clermont County - PJM

Walter C. Beckjord is a 4-megawatt battery-storage facility in Clermont County, Ohio, made up of two 2-MW lithium-ion units. The site was originally the six-unit, 862-MW Walter C. Beckjord coal-fired plant plus four oil-fired combustion turbines, which Duke Energy Ohio retired in stages, with the last coal units and the turbines shut down in 2014. In 2015 Duke Energy built the two lithium-ion battery systems on the former coal-plant footprint, using the existing grid interconnection to sell frequency-regulation service into PJM. When Duke Energy and joint owners AEP and Dayton Power & Light sold the retired coal plant and surrounding land to Commercial Liability Partners in 2018 for brownfield redevelopment, Duke Energy Renewables kept ownership of the two battery units and the nearby transmission substation and switchyard. The facility settles in PJM and its own generating-station price node sits at the site.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 4 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 2830 — plant-2830

## Facts

- **Technology:** Batteries

## Related parties

- **Former owner / operator:** Duke Energy Renewables — Historical battery owner/operator; Duke Energy Renewables was identified as owner and operator of the two battery units after the 2018 property sale. ([source](https://www.duke-energy.com/))
- **Operator:** Duke Energy Ohio Inc — Utility/operator named in the EIA plant record for Walter C Beckjord. ([source](https://www.duke-energy.com/))
- **Equipment supplier:** LG Chem — Lithium-ion battery supplier for Beckjord II.
- **Equipment supplier:** Parker Hannifin — Power-conversion equipment supplier for Beckjord II. ([source](https://www.parker.com/))
- **Acquirer:** Commercial Liability Partners — Buyer of the retired coal-plant property in 2018, not the battery units.
- **Owner / acquirer / equity investor:** Brookfield Renewable — Buyer of Duke Energy's unregulated utility-scale Commercial Renewables business in 2023; investor in Deriva Energy. ([source](https://bep.brookfield.com/))

## Sources

- [investors.duke-energy.com](https://investors.duke-energy.com/news/news-details/2023/Duke-Energy-to-sell-utility-scale-Commercial-Renewables-business-to-Brookfield-for-2.8-billion/default.aspx) — investors.duke-energy.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [mbrweb.ferc.gov](https://mbrweb.ferc.gov/SearchlkpEIA/Index?page=389) — mbrweb.ferc.gov · authoritative — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Canonical page: https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/walter-c-beckjord
Website: [Duke Energy Renewables](https://derivaenergy.com/)

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