Willoughby
20 MW, about 20 MWh (1 hour, from the capacity market de-rating class) in Mid Wales and The Midlands. Everything on this page is read from published data for the 364 days to 22 September 2026, or is labelled as an estimate.
What it is
| Registered power | 20 MW response and reserve auction registration |
| Storage duration | 1.0 hours capacity market de-rating class |
| Charging zone | Mid Wales and The Midlands |
| Connection site | Rushcliffe |
| Postcode | LE12 6TD |
| Balancing mechanism unit | V__BHABI013 a virtual unit registered by the company that trades it; its balancing actions are not yet counted on this site |
| Reserve auction codes | HAB11-FFR until 10 March 2026; AG-HAB01B from 17 March 2026 the same battery under a new code, usually a new company trading it; its money here is both codes together |
Who owns it and who trades it
| Traded by | HABITAT ENERGY LIMITEDruns several sitesauction results, unchecked |
| Owned by | PULSE CLEAN ENERGY UK LIMITED |
| Owner established from | capacity market registered holder |
| Ultimately | Pulse Clean Energy confirmed source |
How we know. Pulse Clean Energy UK Limited was Green Frog Power 214 Limited until December 2021 and Pulse Clean Energy Limited was Green Frog Power Limited until January 2022. Both sit under Pulse Clean Energy Topco 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
| Line | 364 days to 22 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism | not yet counted |
| Response and reserve auctions auction implied | £1.1m |
| Capacity market | £117k |
| Three lines together | £1.3m |
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, estimated from metered peers
Elexon publishes no metered output for this battery. Its balancing registration, V__BHABI013, is a virtual unit registered by the company that trades it, and this site reads no meter for it, so nothing can be derived for it. What can be said is what its peers did: 15 units of about 1 hour in England and Wales, metered, earned between £-0.22 and £26.99 per kilowatt a year with the balancing legs and the position outside the balancing mechanism together, £5.99 at the median. Applied to this unit's 20 MW that is £120k, in a range of −£4k to £540k. An estimate from other batteries, never this one's figure. Method
Where it stands
| All three measured lineswhole fleet, £/kW/yr | 81st percentile199 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willoughbythis battery | 20 | 1h | £63.0/kW/yr |
| Gerrards Cross BESS | 20 | 1h | £36.3/kW/yr |
| Ernesettle | 19 | 1h | £16.3/kW/yr |
| Pulse Clean (HAB12-FFR) | 21 | 1h | £15.9/kW/yr |
| Welkin Mill | 20 | 1h | £14.8/kW/yr |
| Pulse Clean (HAB13-FFR) | 21 | 1h | £11.3/kW/yr |
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