Ferrybridge BESS
One physical site, registered with the market as 2 balancing units, 152 MW in South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Humber. 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 units | 152 MW |
| Balancing units | 2 |
| Charging zone | South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Humber |
| Owned by | SSE FERRYBRIDGE BATTERY LIMITED |
| Ultimately | SSE confirmed |
| Traded by | SSE BATTERY SALISBURY LIMITED |
What the site earned, all units together
| Line | 364 days to 27 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge | £4.2m |
| Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge | −£2.4m |
| Response and reserve auctions | £185k |
| Capacity market | £1.5m |
| Three measured lines together | £3.5m |
Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £38.79/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
| Unit | MW | Discharge | Charge | Standing ready | CM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T_FERRB-1 SSE BATTERY SALISBURY LIMITED | 76 | £2.1m | −£1.2m | £141k | £1.5m |
| T_FERRB-2 SSE BATTERY SALISBURY LIMITED | 76 | £2.1m | −£1.2m | £44k | — |
What it is built from
| Battery system | Sungrow, liquid cooled |
| Entered operation | 2026-03 |
| Container count | 136 Sungrow units |
From published documents, not from any register: supplier and contractor project pages, owner announcements and the trade press. Confidence: confirmed. Checked 2026-08-30. 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 FERRB, all 2 units within 0.1 km. Portfolio families that share a code stem across distant sites, such as an aggregator's fleet, are never grouped. Methods