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Zenobe Energy

Owns 22 batteries at 11 sites, 824 MW, which is 12 per cent of everything operating in Great Britain. It sells 686 MW of that itself and the rest through HD888CAP Ltd, EDF Energy Customers Limited, BESS Holdco 2 Limited and 1 others.

22batteries, counting a re-registered battery once
824 MWof the 6,849 MW operating fleet
£25/kW/yrpaid across the three measured lines, against £35 for the whole fleet
21 of 22confirmed on a control filing or the owner's own statement, the rest 1 probable

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.

Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTD 313 MW · Zenobe Blackhillock Limited 209 MW · Zenobe Capenhurst Limited 105 MW · HD888CAP Ltd 57 MW · others 140 MW
SellerBatteriesMWOf this fleet
Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTD the owner's own company631338%
Zenobe Blackhillock Limited the owner's own company420925%
Zenobe Capenhurst Limited the owner's own company410513%
HD888CAP Ltd1577%
Zenobe Wishaw Limited the owner's own company1516%
EDF Energy Customers Limited3506%
BESS Holdco 2 Limited1202%
Erova Energy Limited1101%
Zenobe Energy Limited the owner's own company191%

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£7.6m
Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge−£23.3m
Response and reserve auctions£8.0m
Capacity market£5.1m
Income across the fleet, per kilowatt£25.31/kW/yr fleet 35.48
Median battery, all three lines£16.77/kW/yr
Hours at full power, sent out88 h/yr
Hours at full power, taken in558 h/yr

What the fleet is made of

Duration, by megawatt

about 1 hour 105 MW · 2 hours and up 641 MW · not published 77 MW

Region, by megawatt

Scotland 572 MW · England and Wales 251 MW

Every battery it owns

BatteryMWSold byGrade£/kW/yr
Capenhurst
North Midlands and North Wales
57HD888CAP Ltdconfirmed40.76
Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-4)
North Scotland
54Zenobe Blackhillock Limitedconfirmed4.84
Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-3)
North Scotland
54Zenobe Blackhillock Limitedconfirmed9.08
East Ayrshire (KILSB-3)
South West Scotlands
54Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed16.77
East Ayrshire (KILSB-1)
South West Scotlands
53Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed14.79
East Ayrshire (KILSB-4)
South West Scotlands
52Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed29.09
East Ayrshire (KILSB-2)
South West Scotlands
52Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed15.00
East Ayrshire (KILSB-6)
South West Scotlands
51Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed10.73
Wishaw BESS
Lothian and Borders
51Zenobe Wishaw Limitedconfirmed60.95
East Ayrshire (KILSB-5)
South West Scotlands
51Zenobe Kilmarnock South LTDconfirmed13.51
Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-2)
North Scotland
50Zenobe Blackhillock Limitedconfirmed40.51
Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-1)
North Scotland
50Zenobe Blackhillock Limitedconfirmed8.19
Tonbridge and Malling
Essex and Kent
30EDF Energy Customers Limitedconfirmed0.00
Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-1)
North Midlands and North Wales
27Zenobe Capenhurst Limitedconfirmed31.07
Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-4)
North Midlands and North Wales
26Zenobe Capenhurst Limitedconfirmed33.97
Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-3)
North Midlands and North Wales
26Zenobe Capenhurst Limitedconfirmed33.82
Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-2)
North Midlands and North Wales
26Zenobe Capenhurst Limitedconfirmed33.25
ZEN02A
Mid Wales and The Midlands
20BESS Holdco 2 Limitedconfirmed84.70
Zenobe Brindley
Cotswold
12EDF Energy Customers Limitedconfirmed11.70
North West Leicestershire (BEROV001)
Mid Wales and The Midlands
10Erova Energy Limitedprobable0.00
Kings Barn Farm
Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex
9Zenobe Energy Limitedconfirmed22.61
Hill Farm
Mid Wales and The Midlands
8EDF Energy Customers Limitedconfirmed50.49

One battery ran under an earlier registration for part of the year, BBPG01. The money earned under the earlier code is in the book above; the capacity is counted once.

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 Capenhurst, Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-4), Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-3), Wishaw BESS, Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-2), Zenobe Blackhillock (BLHLB-1), Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-1), Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-4), Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-3), Zenobe Capenhurst (PINFB-2), Zenobe Brindley
The SPV name carries the group; kept here so the page reads consistently. Source

Confirmed East Ayrshire (KILSB-3), East Ayrshire (KILSB-1), East Ayrshire (KILSB-4), East Ayrshire (KILSB-2), East Ayrshire (KILSB-6), East Ayrshire (KILSB-5)
The register names no owner for these six units. The lead party is Zenobe Kilmarnock South Limited, whose filings give Zenobe Blackhillock Borrower Limited as its controller since January 2024 and Zenobe Energy Limited before that. Source

Confirmed Tonbridge and Malling, North West Leicestershire (BBPG01) (earlier registration), Kings Barn Farm, Hill Farm
Bess Holdco 2 Limited is held by IFM Master Holdco Limited, and IFM Master Holdco is itself held at three quarters or more by Zenobe Energy Limited. The Bess Holdco companies and Zenobe share one registered office at Burdett House. For the two units the register leaves blank, the capacity market holds Hill Farm Packington and Aylesford in Bess Holdco names at the same places. Source

Confirmed ZEN02A
The register names no owner. The capacity market holds a site called Claredown belonging to Bess Holdco 4 Limited, the renewables planning database gives Claredown Farm to Zenobe under its former name Energy Reservoir 15 at the same 20 MW, and the Bess Holdco companies run through IFM Master Holdco Limited to Zenobe Energy Limited. Source

Probable North West Leicestershire (BEROV001)
The register names no owner and places this unit only by postcode district. Hill Farm Packington, held by Bess Holdco 2 Limited, sits inside that district and already carries two other units. 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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