Power plants

Battery storage in the UK

Rare Context lists 1,520 battery storage sites in the United Kingdom, with 156,893 MW of capacity between them. The largest is Walpole Flexible Generation Project (2,000 MW).

The 100 largest battery storage sites

Sorted by capacity; plants not built yet come after the others. A plant counts under each technology its register gives it.

Power plantRegionOwner or operatorCapacity
Walpole Flexible Generation ProjectEnglandWalpole Flexible Generation Limited2,000 MW
Teesworks Battery Storage ProjectEnglandTeesworks Ltd, NatPower UK1,000 MW
Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemScotlandApatura GPC 700 Limited700 MW
Thurrock Flexible Generation PlantEnglandThurrock Power600 MW
Braston New EnergyScotlandNew Energy Partnership500 MW
Eggborough Power Station, Selby Road - Battery StorageEnglandEggborough Power Limited500 MW
Gretna Green Battery StorageScotlandGresham House Devco Pipeline456 MW
Blackdyke Farm, Blackford - Battery StorageEnglandInnova Renewables400 MW
Cellarhead Substation, Rownall Road - Battery Energy FacilityEnglandC&S Energy Limited400 MW
Elstree Substation, Hilfield Lane - Battery Energy StorageEnglandChiltern Renewables Hockliffe Limited400 MW
Kincardine Grid Services Complex - Energy Storage FacilityScotlandAmp Energy400 MW
Bury Farm, Dickens Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandRegener8 Power Limited350 MW
Blackdyke Farm, Blackford - Battery StorageEnglandNovus Renewable Services Limited +1340 MW
Stargoose Farm - Battery StorageEnglandSolarcentury +1312 MW
Dartford BESS - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandClearstone Energy300 MW
Forty Acre Wood, The Street - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandGreenfield Energy Developments Limited300 MW
Foxhounds Lane, Southfleet - Battery StorageEnglandEcoDev Group Limited300 MW
Kilmarnock South Substation - Battery storageScotlandZenobē300 MW
Mossmorran Battery StorageScotlandGresham House Devco Pipeline300 MW
Culham Science CentreEnglandCESL UK Atomic Energy Authority250 MW
Station Road, Fiddlers Ferry - Battery Energy StorageEnglandNet Zero One Ltd250 MW
Armitage Road, Armitage - Battery Energy StorageEnglandGalileo Empower200 MW
Astwood Lane, Feckenham - Battery StorageEnglandImmersa200 MW
Cargo Road, Cargo - Battery StorageEnglandImmersa200 MW
Earthcott Green Farm, Earthcott Green - Battery Energy StorageEnglandImmersa200 MW
Heysham Energy Storage ProjectEnglandKona Energy Limited200 MW
North Cray Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandFirstway Energy200 MW
Scoop Hill Wind FarmScotlandCommunity Windpower200 MW
Todhills and Westlinton - Harker Battery Energy Storage FacilityEnglandWindel Energy200 MW
Worset Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandClearstone Energy200 MW
Buckland Battery StorageEnglandREWE 5 Limited150 MW
Cholmondeley Road - Battery StorageEnglandP3P Partners LLP150 MW
Cleve Hill Solar ProjectEnglandQuinbrook Infrastructure Partners150 MW
Kirkhaw Lane - Battery Storage EnergyEnglandSSE Enterprise Contracting150 MW
Norrington Gate Farm, Broughton Gifford - Battery Energy Storage FacilityEnglandADV 003 Limited150 MW
Stammery Hill - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandClearstone Energy150 MW
Clough Road - Battery Energy SystemEnglandGAM Capital Limited130 MW
Stoke Lane - Battery Energy StorageEnglandFPC Electric Land Limited130 MW
Pound Road, Hawkchurch - Battery Energy StorageEnglandEnso Green Holdings B Limited120 MW
Pound Road, Hawkchurch - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandEnso Energy Limited120 MW
Frog Lane, Little London - Battery Energy StorageEnglandBritish Solar Renewables115 MW
Hickling Lane, Swainsthorpe -Battery StorageEnglandEDF Energy Renewables114 MW
Kinmuck Battery Energy StorageScotlandIsland Green Power +1105 MW
Bean Lane - Battery Energy Storage FacilityEnglandAnglo Es Bean Lane Limited104 MW
Battlesbridge Bypass, Rettendon - Battery StorageEnglandPelagic Energy100 MW
Bowenhurst Farm, Mill Lane - Battery Energy StorageEnglandBowenhurst BESS Limited100 MW
Bradford West, Harrop Lane, Wilsden - Battery StorageEngland24 Power Limited100 MW
Hales Lane - Battery Storage FacilityEnglandAura Power100 MW
Hillside Farm, Lancaster Road - Battery StorageEnglandHamilton March100 MW
Hook Street - Energy Storage CompoundEnglandImmersa100 MW
Kilwinning Battery StorageScotlandApatura100 MW
Kirkhaw Lane - Battery StorageEnglandVox Energy Limited +1100 MW
Lime Lane, Pelsall - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandElgin Energy EsCo100 MW
Lower road, Garsington - Energy Storage SystemEnglandNet Zero Twenty One Ltd100 MW
Minchens Lane Battery Storage FacilityEnglandPenso Power100 MW
Morris Marble Works, Cross Lane - Battery Energy StorageEnglandBluefield Renewable Developments Limited100 MW
National Grid Electricity Substation, Capenhurst Lane - Battery StorageEnglandZenobē100 MW
New Road, Featherstone - Battery StorageEnglandChiltern Renewables Hockliffe Limited100 MW
Newburn Bridge Road - Battery Storage FacilityEnglandThe Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited100 MW
North Walpole, St Peter - Battery Energy StorageEnglandRoc Noir Limited100 MW
Orchard Farm, Langley Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandRE Projects Development100 MW
Penn Croft Farm, Crondall - Battery Energy Storage FacilityEnglandFleet BESS Limited & SSE Energy Solutions Limited100 MW
Shuttleworth House, Higher Shuttleworth - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandRenewable Connections Developments Limited100 MW
St Dennis - Battery Energy StorageEnglandPivot Power +1100 MW
Third Energy UK Gas Limited - Battery Energy StorageEnglandThird Energy100 MW
Tilbury Energy CentreEnglandRWE Generation100 MW
Tyddyn Forgan, Llanddeiniolen - Energy Storage SystemWalesFirstway Energy +1100 MW
Walpole St Andrew - Battery storageEnglandAlfred Energy Limited100 MW
Walpole Sub Station, Walpole Bank - Battery StorageEnglandHenry Energy Limited100 MW
Walpole Sub Station, Walpole Bank - Battery StorageEnglandHenry Energy Limited100 MW
Woodford Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandPegasus Group100 MW
Dollymans StorageEnglandDollymans Storage +1100 MW
Glyn Rhonwy Pumped StorageWalesSnowdonia Pumped Hydro99.9 MW
Lakeside Energy Storage FacilityEnglandTag Energy UK99.9 MW
Landulph Substation, Landulph - Battery StorageEnglandNZED Projectco 2 Limited99.9 MW
Linton Court Farm, Highnam - Battery storageEnglandSTOR 136 Limited99.9 MW
Lower Larks Farm - Battery storageEnglandIPP Cero Generation99.9 MW
Padiham - Battery Energy StorageEnglandEnergi Generation99.9 MW
Seion, Pentir - Battery Energy Storage SystemWalesBrockwell Storage & Solar Limited99.9 MW
South Thinford Lane, Thinford - Energy StorageEnglandRenewable Energy Systems99.9 MW
Adj New House Farm, Luzlow Lane - Battery Energy StorageEnglandYLEM South Limited99 MW
Hogshaw Road, Granborough - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandRoot Power Limited99 MW
Skelton Grange Battery Storage FacilityEnglandCatalyst Capital LLP99 MW
Winterton Road - Battery Energy StorageEnglandNewton Energi Limited95 MW
Ipswich Road, Cardiff - Battery StorageWalesGreen Frog Power 214 Limited93 MW
Land Southwest of Hightown Drove, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandGrenergy Renewables UK Limited90 MW
Green Lane, Thurcroft - Battery Energy Storage FacilityEnglandNewton Energi Limited85 MW
Rochdale Road, Edenfield - Battery StorageEnglandCubico Limited85 MW
Aikengall II Community Wind Farm BatteryScotlandCommunity Windpower80 MW
Barlow Road, Barlow Road - Battery StorageEnglandVox Energy Limited80 MW
Midland Road - Battery Energy StorageEngland—80 MW
Netherlands Way - Battery Energy FacilityEnglandVolta Energy Group80 MW
Newlands Farm, Crewkerne Road - Battery Energy StorageEnglandSky UK Development Limited80 MW
Old Trent Road, Beckingham - Battery Storage FacilityEnglandRecell Energy80 MW
Stony Energy Storage FacilityEnglandGore Street Energy Storage Fund79.9 MW
Mary Avenue, Birtley - Battery Energy StorageEnglandFig Power71 MW
Calder Works, Burnley Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnglandSirius EcoDev Limited70 MW
Oaklands Farm, New Road - Battery Energy StorageEnglandConrad Energy II Limited70 MW
Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy StorageEnglandUKGEA70 MW
Middleton Road - Linwood Battery Energy Storage SystemScotlandBluestone Energy69 MW

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Every battery storage site in the United Kingdom, with owners.All 1,520 in one file, each with its capacity and grid status. We research what the public sources leave out.

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