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Burwell Weirs Drove BESS

One physical site, registered with the market as 3 separate balancing units, 126 MW together in Mid Wales and The Midlands. The market settles each unit on its own; this page adds them back up. Everything is read from published data for the 364 days to 28 August 2026.

The site

Registered power, all units126 MW
Balancing units3
Charging zoneMid Wales and The Midlands
Owned byCARE POWER (BURWELL 1) LIMITED

What the site earned, all units together

Line364 days to 28 August 2026
Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge£442k
Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge−£276k
Response and reserve auctions£1.3m
Capacity market£289k
Three measured lines together£1.7m

Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £15.91/kW/yr on the three measured lines, before charging costs and before wholesale trading, which nobody publishes. Each unit's own page carries its estimate and its percentiles.

The units

UnitMWDischargeChargeStanding readyCM
E_BURWB-1
Arenko Cleantech Limited
50£70k−£15k£228k
E_BURWB-2
EDF Energy Customers Limited
52£372k−£262k£914k£289k
E_BURWB-3
EDF ENERGY CUSTOMERS LIMITED
24£0£135k

Grouped on evidence, not on a name: shared unit code stem BURWB, all 3 units within 1.1 km. Portfolio families that share a code stem across distant sites, such as an aggregator's fleet, are never grouped. Methods

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