The Buckeye area could be getting a new battery storage facility.
While the facility technically wouldn’t be in the city of Buckeye, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to rezone about 14 acres of land from rural to industrial, giving the project the OK to move to the next step in development. The development would be located at the northwest corner of Tuthill and Broadway roads across from an Arizona Public Service substation.
Strata Clean Energy is developing the project, which could include 1,290 battery units within specifically designed storage cabinets, according to Maricopa County documents. The development would only have up to three employees overseeing the operations at any given time.
Strata, a family-owned renewable energy developer, owner and operator, already has more than 190 solar and energy storage developments across the United States. The North Carolina-based company also recently broke ground on a similar facility in Phoenix earlier this month.