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ENGIE

Owns 3 batteries at 3 sites, 102 MW, which is 1.5 per cent of everything operating in Great Britain. It sells that power itself: every registration names a company of its own as the seller.

3batteries, counting a re-registered battery once
102 MWof the 6,849 MW operating fleet
£9/kW/yrpaid across the three measured lines, against £35 for the whole fleet
2 of 3confirmed on a control filing or the owner's own statement, the rest 1 named

Who sells its power

The balancing mechanism register names the company allowed to sell each unit's power. That company is usually an optimiser or a supplier working under contract, which is why the registers cannot answer the ownership question on their own. Where the seller is one of the owner's own companies, the row says so.

ENGIE Power Limited 102 MW
SellerBatteriesMWOf this fleet
ENGIE Power Limited the owner's own company3102100%

What it was paid

The three published lines, added up across the fleet for the 364 days to 6 September 2026. Wholesale trading income is invisible for every owner, not just this one, and nothing here nets the cost of charging. The rate is per kilowatt of current capacity.

Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge£364k
Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge−£1.3m
Response and reserve auctions£17k
Capacity market£486k
Income across the fleet, per kilowatt£8.53/kW/yr fleet 35.48
Median battery, all three lines£8.33/kW/yr
Hours at full power, sent out30 h/yr
Hours at full power, taken in144 h/yr

What the fleet is made of

Duration, by megawatt

2 hours and up 100 MW · not published 2 MW

Region, by megawatt

Scotland 100 MW · England and Wales 2 MW

Every battery it owns

BatteryMWSold byGrade£/kW/yr
Broxburn Battery
Stirlingshire and Fife
50ENGIE Power Limitedconfirmed8.91
Cathkin Battery
Stirlingshire and Fife
50ENGIE Power Limitedconfirmed8.16
Sheffield (ENGQR-05)
North Midlands and North Wales
2ENGIE Power Limitednamed8.33

How we know

Confirmed means a control filing at Companies House, or the owner's own published statement, names the company. Probable means the evidence is strong and indirect. Named means the register leaves the owner blank, the balancing code carries the owner's initials, and a sibling unit at the same site is already settled. Each chain below is printed once, with the batteries it settles.

Confirmed Broxburn Battery, Cathkin Battery
ENGIE bought Broxburn ready to build and operates Cathkin, per the development partners. Source

Named Sheffield (ENGQR-05)
The register names no owner. The lead party is Engie Power Limited and the site already holds two other ENGIE batteries. Source

Attribution. A battery belongs to whoever the documents name today, so a fleet that changed hands during the year credits the whole year to the current owner. Groups are joined only where a filing joins them; a company that holds through several vehicles appears once, under the name at the top of the chain. Directors and registered offices are never used as evidence on their own. Why the registers cannot answer this question

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