West Bradford
29 MW, about 72 MWh (2.5 hours, from the capacity market de-rating class) in South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Humber. Everything on this page is read from published data for the 364 days to 23 September 2026, or is labelled as an estimate.
What it is
| Registered power | 29 MW response and reserve auction registration |
| Storage duration | 2.5 hours capacity market de-rating class |
| Charging zone | South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Humber |
| Connection site | Bradford |
| Postcode | BD15 9AG |
| Balancing mechanism unit | none found under the codes we search |
Who owns it and who trades it
| Traded by | OCTOPUS ENERGY TRADING LIMITEDruns several sitesauction results, unchecked |
| Owned by | UK BATTERY STORAGE LTD |
| Owner established from | capacity market registered holder |
| Ultimately | Gresham House Energy Storage Fund confirmed source |
How we know. The registered office of each company names Gresham House Asset Management, read company by company on 31 August 2026. The address alone would not settle it, because 875 companies sit at 5 New Street Square; the care of line naming the manager is the discriminator.
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
| Line | 364 days to 23 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism | not published |
| Response and reserve auctions auction implied | £20k |
| Capacity market | £822k |
| Three lines together | £842k |
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 the cleared price raised for inflation where the auction set a base period, split by month on EMRS's weights. Method
Outside the balancing mechanism, estimated from metered peers
Elexon publishes no metered output for this registration, an auction unit rather than a balancing mechanism unit, so nothing can be derived for it. What can be said is what its peers did: 77 metered units in England and Wales, all durations, metered, earned between £0.21 and £36.29 per kilowatt a year with the balancing legs and the position outside the balancing mechanism together, £15.13 at the median. Applied to this unit's 29 MW that is £439k, in a range of £6k to £1.1m. An estimate from other batteries, never this one's figure. Method
Where it stands
| All three measured lineswhole fleet, £/kW/yr | 44th percentile197 units |
Percentiles, so 90 means better than nine in ten of the cohort named beside it, on that measure alone, over the same 364 days. Rates are pounds per kilowatt per year, annualised over the days the unit has been on the system, the same figures the performance league ranks on. A high position in the taken-in table is not a fault: a constraint asset is paid to charge, and charging is its job.
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. They run for about the same length of time. Same market, same rules, same weather.
| Battery | MW | Hours | Measured, per kW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mannington | 29 | 2h | £133.8/kW/yr |
| Blackpool | 25 | 2h | £52.7/kW/yr |
| West Bradfordthis battery | 29 | 2.5h | £29.1/kW/yr |
| Whitebirk BESS | 25 | 2.9h | £28.1/kW/yr |
| North Tawton BESS | 32 | 2h | £14.9/kW/yr |
| Edfe-13 | 28 | 2h | −£0.3/kW/yr |
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Every figure on this page traces to a published file. If something here is wrong about your asset, the methods section says how to tell us.