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Cheshire West and Chester

48 MW in North Midlands and North Wales. Everything on this page is read from published data for the 364 days to 22 September 2026, or is labelled as an estimate.

This registration has been superseded. The battery here has sold as Native River since 5 February 2025; this code, sold by ARENKO CLEANTECH LIMITED, last appeared on 12 January 2025. The page stays for the record, and the unit is no longer counted in fleet totals or ranked in the league.

What it is

Registered power48 MW response and reserve auction registration
Charging zoneNorth Midlands and North Wales
Connection siteCheshire West and Chester
PostcodeCH1 6ER
Balancing mechanism unitnone found under the codes we search

Who owns it and who trades it

Traded byARENKO CLEANTECH LIMITEDruns several sitesauction results, unchecked
Owned bynot published anywhere we can read
UltimatelyVarco Energy (Adaptogen Capital) confirmed source

How we know. Sizing John, Native River and Al Boum Photo are the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Cheltenham Gold Cup winners, and all three companies share one registered office with Varco Energy and the Adaptogen Battery Storage fund. The control filing on Sizing John Limited runs to Varco Energy Holdco 1 Limited.

Market registers name the party that sells into the market, which for a battery is usually an optimiser under contract rather than the owner. This unit is registered only in the response and reserve auctions, so the seller is the participant NESO's auction results name, and Elexon's register carries no entry to check it against. How we tell them apart

What it earned

Line364 days to 22 September 2026
Balancing mechanismnot published
Response and reserve auctions auction implied£0
Capacity marketno agreement we can attach
Three lines together£0

Balancing is offer revenue and does not net off the cost of the power. The response and reserve figure is the value implied by the published auction results, award quantity times clearing price times the length of the delivery window, and not a settled payment. Capacity market income is at the price the agreement cleared at, before inflation uprating, so it is a floor. Method

Outside the balancing mechanism

No estimate for this registration. The battery sells under a newer code now, and anything estimated for it belongs on that page, so it is not counted twice. Method

The nearest comparables

The five nearest in size in England and Wales, and this battery among them, ranked by what each was paid for every kilowatt it holds over the 364 days to the same date. How long this battery can run for is not published, so duration is not used to choose them. Same market, same rules, same weather.

BatteryMWHoursMeasured, per kW
Melksham East492h£112.2/kW/yr
Roosecote BESS49not known£53.2/kW/yr
Tollgate Energy Storage494h£38.4/kW/yr
Cowley491h£30.3/kW/yr
Nursling Battery Storage481h£30.2/kW/yr
Cheshire West and Chesterthis battery48not known£0.0/kW/yr

Why every line reads zero

This registration has never appeared with an award or an acceptance in any market we read. That is the whole public record.

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