Richborough Energy Park
One physical site, registered with the market as 2 balancing units, 100 MW in Essex and Kent. 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 | 100 MW |
| Balancing units | 2 |
| Charging zone | Essex and Kent |
| Owned by | RICHBOROUGH ENERGY PARK LIMITED |
| Ultimately | Sosteneo (Pacific Green developed) confirmed |
| Traded by | Limejump Energy Limited |
What the site earned, all units together
| Line | 364 days to 27 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge | £1.3m |
| Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge | −£571k |
| Response and reserve auctions | £2.4m |
| Capacity market | £243k |
| Three measured lines together | £3.4m |
Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £39.58/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_RICHB-1 Limejump Energy Limited | 50 | £683k | −£288k | £1.2m | — |
| T_RICHB-2 Limejump Energy Limited | 50 | £578k | −£283k | £1.3m | £243k |
What it is built from
| Battery system | Gotion (LFP) |
| Entered operation | 2024-01 (grid connection announced) |
| Connection voltage | 132 kV documented: 132 kV point of interconnection per the Pacific Green case study |
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 RICHB, 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