West Burton B Battery
One physical site, registered with the market as 2 balancing units, 62 MW in North Midlands and North Wales. 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 | 62 MW |
| Balancing units | 2 |
| Charging zone | North Midlands and North Wales |
| Owned by | WEST BURTON B LIMITED |
| Ultimately | UK Transition Power confirmed |
| Traded by | West Burton B Limited |
What the site earned, all units together
| Line | 364 days to 27 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge | £193k |
| Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge | −£196k |
| Response and reserve auctions | £0 |
| Capacity market | £1.4m |
| Three measured lines together | £1.4m |
Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £26.38/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_WBURB-41 West Burton B Limited | 31 | £85k | −£97k | — | — |
| T_WBURB-43 West Burton B Limited | 31 | £107k | −£99k | — | £1.4m |
What it is built from
| Battery system | Nidec (2018 EFR generation) |
| Engineering and construction | Nidec ASI with EDF Energy Renewables |
| Entered operation | 2018 |
| Container count | 20 containers at 2.45 MW each |
From published documents, not from any register: supplier and contractor project pages, owner announcements and the trade press. Confidence: confirmed (2018 build); probable (pipeline ties). 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 WBURB, 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