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See the batteries running in thirteen countries, and everything waiting to join them.

Britain in full: what each battery is paid, who owns it, who trades it, and which of the 314 GW in the queue is likely to fail. The other twelve from the registers, counts and markets each country publishes, and from the batteries their owners name where no list exists.

A battery that runs todayCapacity waiting to connectA market in testing: read and checked, nothing published

How to read the map

Great Britain: the haze is the 175 GW of the queue at points with a known position; the other 139 GW sits at points with no published location.
Ireland and Northern Ireland: the points are the 1,049 MW of batteries in the all-island market, as SEMO registers them; the haze is the 3,838 MW contracted and not yet energised, at its station. 9 of 73 batteries could not be placed by name.
Germany: the points are the 4,337 MW of batteries of a megawatt or more registered as operating, at their registered coordinates. The haze is the 9,326 MW registered as planned that the Germany page counts; the 3,304 MW it holds apart as doubtful is left off. Germany’s connection queue is not public. Pumped storage is not drawn.
Italy: the haze is Terna’s 286 GW, at the centre of each municipality, the closest Terna publishes; the points are all the 17 running batteries the public record names, at their municipality.
Finland: no Finnish body publishes a list of its batteries. The card gives Fingrid’s own count, 2,092 MW on 12 November 2026; the points are the 461 MW of it their owners name as running, at the place GeoNames gives their name or municipality, and the haze is the 1,810 MW their owners say is being built. 6 of 93 named batteries could not be placed. Fingrid publishes no queue; it says more than 30 GW of storage has asked to connect (26 September 2025).
Sweden: no Swedish body publishes a list of its batteries. The points are the 909 MW their owners name as running, at the place GeoNames gives their name or municipality, and the haze the 30 MW being built. Svenska kraftnät had approved 1,730 MW of storage to sell FCR-D up on 1 October 2026; it names none of it.
Belgium: the points are the 854 MW of batteries Elia, the grid operator, schedules, and the ones running beside them that their owners name; the haze is the 1,720 MW being built. The Netherlands: no Dutch body publishes a list, so the points are the 569 MW their owners name as running and the haze the 892 MW they say is being built.
France: the points are the 931 batteries in the national register of 30 September 2026, 2,444 MW, each at the substation it connects through where Caparéseau places it, otherwise near RTE’s substation in its commune or at the commune’s centre. France publishes no connection queue battery by battery, so nothing is drawn as waiting.
Spain: the points are the 20 batteries registered to trade on OMIE, the Iberian market, where a source we may publish places them; Spain publishes no list of the batteries running. The haze is the 208 battery installations the State gazette names that are not yet registered, 1,625 MW of them authorised to build, each at the centre of its municipality. Spain publishes no connection queue with names.
Poland: the points are the storage projects in PSE’s connection queue of 30 September 2026 at the substation PSE names, and the batteries its list shows delivering. No Polish body publishes the batteries running.
Denmark: no Danish body publishes a list of its batteries. The points are the 308 MW their owners, builders and permits name as running, at the address a permit gives or the place a source names; the haze is the 371 MW being built. Energinet publishes no connection queue by project.
Norway: NVE says the country has no stand-alone commercial battery of any significant size, because its hydro plants already give the system its flexibility. The points are the 5.2 MW named as running on the mainland grid, and the haze the 47.5 MW consented or being built.

One real day

On Monday 9 November a battery could charge at £102 overnight, then sell at £755 by half past four.

The imbalance price each half hour, on the day with the widest swing of the seven to 13 November. Watch a four hour battery fill up while the price is at its lowest and empty in the afternoon.

The imbalance price is what energy was worth to the grid at the last minute, set by Elexon every half hour, per megawatt hour. The battery shows the timing only; its earnings are not a measured figure.

Ten markets, read the same way

The same method in each country: the register, the operating fleet and, where a country publishes it, what the fleet is paid, all from published files, rebuilt on every refresh.

Great Britain

Registers read twice a week since August 2026
Zeropermitted battery capacity left in all nineteen zones after the reform
188 GWof the queue traced to 76 named developers from Companies House filings

Italy

Read monthly from Terna since 12 November 2026
286 GWof storage asking to connect at transmission level, 3,461 applications
254 GWof that is stand-alone batteries, the rest paired with solar or wind, or pumped hydro
12.0 GWhas a final connection solution or a signed contract, the stage the new rule protects
0.8 GWrunning at the 17 batteries the public record names. Terna has been ordered to publish the fleet by site; no date is set

Ireland and Northern Ireland

Registers read monthly, meters daily, since October 2026
1,049 MWin the all-island market, 28 units as SEMO registers them, each one metered daily
3.8 GWin 44 batteries contracted and not yet energised, from EirGrid’s and ESB Networks’ lists

Germany

The federal register, read daily since October 2026
4.3 GWin 542 batteries of a megawatt or more registered as operating, at their registered coordinates
9.3 GWregistered as planned and 3.3 GW held apart as doubtful. The connection queue itself is not public

Finland

Fingrid read twice a week since October 2026
2.1 GWof batteries by Fingrid’s own count on 12 November 2026; no Finnish body publishes a list, so 461 MW of it is named by its owners
1.8 GWnamed by its owners as being built, with every reserve market Fingrid runs and what one megawatt is paid in each

Belgium

Elia’s list read every day since October 2026
854 MWin the 15 batteries Elia, the grid operator, schedules, each named in its own list and joined to its owner
1.7 GWbeing built in 12 batteries, and the metered output of the largest, from ENTSO-E

The Netherlands

Owners’ releases read since October 2026
569 MWrunning in the 31 batteries their owners name; no Dutch body publishes a list, and Statistics Netherlands counted 753 MW at the end of 2025
0.9 GWbeing built in 6 batteries their owners name

France

The national register, every edition since 2019
2,444 MWin the 931 batteries the national register names, each at the substation it connects through, up from 1,522 MW at the end of 2025
Under 5 MWof room for a new battery at every one of RTE’s 2,741 substations, by RTE’s own map

Spain

The State gazette, every battery act since 2021
8,155 MWin the 229 battery installations the State gazette names, 1,815 MW of them authorised to build
2,642 MWfirst authorised by the State in 2026, in 63 installations; 20 batteries are registered to trade on OMIE

Poland

PSE’s queue, every month
34.7 GWof storage in PSE’s queue had until 30 October 2026 to pay what the Grid Act asks or lapse, 178 projects
13.5 GWholds a signed connection agreement, with every applicant and substation named by PSE

Three products

The register is free because it traces to published files. The work we add sits behind a key.

The Fleet

Every operating battery: what it earns, who owns it, who trades it, and what it is doing right now, measured from settlement rather than modelled.

FreeGreat Britain

The Development Atlas

The connection queue on a map: what is contracted, what is likely to fail, where capacity comes back, and what changed since the last read. Who is really behind each project is the part we resolve ourselves.

FreeKeyGreat Britain · Italy

The Forecast

Tomorrow’s price, published each morning before the auction, and the long term view drawn from every public report so a page never shows nothing.

FreeGreat Britain

How it is kept honest

Every number traces to a published file or is labelled as inference. The three marks below appear on every map and every page.

MeasuredRead directly from a published register, settlement file or filing, with the date it was read.
InferredWorked out by us, for instance a coordinate derived from a substation name. Drawn differently and explained in the popup.
Not publishedLeft blank. Where the data does not exist in any published file, we say so instead of estimating.

How every number is worked out  ·  What you may do with each layer

The Friday ledger

Every Friday, every change in the queue since the last read: new requests, withdrawals, dates that moved, capacity that came back. One email, no commentary you did not ask for.

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The ledger covers Great Britain today. Each other market has its own What changed page on the site: Ireland, Germany, Italy, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain.

Read from the published registers ofNational Energy System OperatorElexonCapacity Market RegisterRenewable Energy Planning DatabaseCompanies HouseTerna