Gamebird Pit, off Highway 160 west of Carpenter Canyon Road, Pahrump, Nye County, NVARES North America
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InfraSure's[2] CAISO record for queue 1064 lists a proposed commercial operation date of January 8, 2027 (Cleanview[3] shows the same); the developer has published no date. Sandia[5] describes the current Gamebird configuration as a demonstration site 'completed 2025', so the 2027 date is an estimate for the full plant.ARES North America is building a rail-based gravity energy storage plant of 50 MW (developer and press) or 44 MW (CAISO queue 1064) at the Gamebird Pit near Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, for CAISO ancillary services; the 2016 capital estimate was a little under 55 million USD and the queue date is 8 January 2027.
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