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Pillswood

One physical site, registered with the market as 2 balancing units, 100 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 units100 MW
Balancing units2
Storage duration2 hours
Charging zoneSouth Lancashire, Yorkshire and Humber
UltimatelyHarmony Energy Income Trust (assets under Foresight Group) probable
Traded byBP Gas Marketing Limited

What the site earned, all units together

Line364 days to 27 September 2026
Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge£6.5m
Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge−£3.6m
Response and reserve auctions£2.1m
Capacity market£1.1m
Three measured lines together£6.2m

Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £98.44/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_PILLB-1
BP Gas Marketing Limited
50£3.3m−£1.8m£1.1m£555k
E_PILLB-2
BP Gas Marketing Limited
50£3.3m−£1.7m£1.1m£555k

What it is built from

Battery systemTesla, Megapack
Entered operation2022-11

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. 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 PILLB, 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

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