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 power | 49 MW response and reserve auction registration |
| Charging zone | Essex and Kent |
| Connection site | Swale |
| Postcode | ME12 3RL |
| Balancing mechanism unit | 2__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 by | UK POWER RESERVE LIMITEDruns several sitesauction results, unchecked |
| Owned by | UK POWER RESERVE LIMITED |
| Owner established from | capacity market registered holder |
| Ultimately | Sembcorp (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
| Line | 364 days to 27 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism | not 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/yr | 79th 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.
| Battery | MW | Hours | Measured, per kW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melksham East | 49 | 2h | £107.3/kW/yr |
| Reservethis battery | 49 | not known | £62.7/kW/yr |
| Roosecote BESS | 49 | not known | £61.1/kW/yr |
| Tollgate Energy Storage | 49 | 4h | £41.8/kW/yr |
| Cowley | 49 | 1h | £31.6/kW/yr |
| Brentwood | 49 | not known | £8.2/kW/yr |
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