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Grid Storage
Heard County Pumped hydroelectric plant
22nd-largest grid storage in United States of 101 · top 51% worldwide (#488 of 965)
- Owner
- Nelson Energy LLC
- Status
- proposed
- Capacity
- 1,000 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · United States · 101 ranked
- #1Red Lake Pumped hydroelectric plant3.0 GW
- #20Blenheim Gilboa hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #21Haiwee Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #22Heard County Pumped hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #23Intermountain Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #24Marathon County Pumped hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Tenaska Georgia Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 1.8 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- Georgia Power
- Substations in range
- 7
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Heard County Pumped hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · hydro
- Fortson - Heard County 500kV1.5 km · Transmission Line
- Tenaska Georgia generation facility1.7 km · Power Plant · 1.1 GW · gas
- 500 kV line1.7 km · Transmission Line
- Tenaska Georgia Substation1.8 km · Substation / Converter
- Heard County Substation1.9 km · Substation / Converter
- Heard County Sub GEORG to Hawk Road Sub GEORG 500KV1.9 km · Transmission Line
- Hawk Road Substation2.1 km · Substation / Converter
- Hawk Road Facility power station2.1 km · Power Plant · 495 MW · gas
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Watercourse: Hilly Mill Creek
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)