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Reserve

49 MW in Essex and Kent. Everything on this page is read from published data for the 364 days to 27 September 2026, or is labelled as an estimate.

What it is

Registered power49 MW response and reserve auction registration
Charging zoneEssex and Kent
Connection siteSwale
PostcodeME12 3RL
Balancing mechanism unit2__JUKPR001 a supplier unit registered by the company that trades it; its balancing actions are not yet counted on this site

Who owns it and who trades it

Traded byUK POWER RESERVE LIMITEDruns several sitesauction results, unchecked
Owned byUK POWER RESERVE LIMITED
Owner established fromcapacity market registered holder
UltimatelySembcorp (UK Power Reserve) confirmed source

How we know. UK Power Reserve Limited is registered at Sembcorp UK Headquarters, Wilton International, Middlesbrough.

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

Line364 days to 27 September 2026
Balancing mechanismnot yet counted
Response and reserve auctions auction implied£1.6m
Capacity market£1.5m
Three lines together£3.1m

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 battery. Its balancing registration, 2__JUKPR001, is a supplier 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: 8 units of about unknown hours in England and Wales, metered, earned between £-11.99 and £3.12 per kilowatt a year with the balancing legs and the position outside the balancing mechanism together, £-0.08 at the median. Applied to this unit's 49 MW that is −£4k, in a range of −£588k to £153k. An estimate from other batteries, never this one's figure. Method

Where it stands

All three measured lineswhole fleet, £/kW/yr79th percentile229 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. How long this battery can run for is not published, so duration is not used to choose them. Same market, same rules, same weather.

BatteryMWHoursMeasured, per kW
Melksham East492h£107.3/kW/yr
Reservethis battery49not known£62.7/kW/yr
Roosecote BESS49not known£61.1/kW/yr
Tollgate Energy Storage494h£41.8/kW/yr
Cowley491h£31.6/kW/yr
Brentwood49not known£8.2/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.