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Burwell Weirs Drove BESS

One physical site, registered with the market as 3 balancing units over time, 2 live today, 76 MW 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 27 September 2026.

The site

Registered power, live units76 MW
Balancing units3
Superseded registrationsE_BURWB-1, last seen 2025-10-06
Charging zoneMid Wales and The Midlands
Owned byCARE POWER (BURWELL 1) LIMITED
UltimatelyVoltwise Power (Sandbrook Capital) confirmed

What the site earned, all units together

Line364 days to 27 September 2026
Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge£432k
Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge−£310k
Response and reserve auctions£1.4m
Capacity market£373k
Three measured lines together£1.9m

The sums include what the superseded registration earned before its handover. The old and new codes were never active at the same time, so nothing above is counted twice.

Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £28.77/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Arenko Cleantech Limited · superseded
50£25k−£3k£42k—
E_BURWB-2
EDF Energy Customers Limited
52£407k−£307k£1.1m£373k
E_BURWB-3
EDF ENERGY CUSTOMERS LIMITED
24£0—£204k—

What it is built from

Battery systemTrina Storage, Elementa LFP (phase 1); phase 2 OEM unknown
Engineering and constructionAlan Wood & Partners, civil and structural design, foundations, transformer bunds, switch rooms (phase 2)
Connection voltage132 kV documented: the firm lists the Burwell phase 1 job as a 132 kV grid connection

From published documents, not from any register: supplier and contractor project pages, owner announcements and the trade press. Confidence: confirmed (phase 1, owner chain); probable (re-registration reading). Checked 2026-08-31. source 1 · source 2. Fields not shown are not published anywhere we have found, and we do not guess them.

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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