Zenobe Capenhurst
One physical site, registered with the market as 4 balancing units, 105 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 16 October 2026.
The site
| Registered power, live units | 105 MW |
| Balancing units | 4 |
| Charging zone | North Midlands and North Wales |
| Ultimately | Zenobe Energy confirmed |
| Traded by | Zenobe Capenhurst Limited |
What the site earned, all units together
| Line | 364 days to 16 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Balancing mechanism, paid to discharge | £783k |
| Balancing mechanism, paid out to charge | −£791k |
| Response and reserve auctions | £3.0m |
| Capacity market | £760k |
| Three measured lines together | £3.7m |
Income per kilowatt across the whole site: £43.20/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_PINFB-1 Zenobe Capenhurst Limited | 27 | £217k | −£202k | £706k | £760k |
| T_PINFB-2 Zenobe Capenhurst Limited | 26 | £204k | −£196k | £735k | — |
| T_PINFB-3 Zenobe Capenhurst Limited | 26 | £174k | −£197k | £769k | — |
| T_PINFB-4 Zenobe Capenhurst Limited | 26 | £188k | −£195k | £775k | — |
What it is built from
| Battery system | Wärtsilä (GEMS platform; retrofit documented) |
| Engineering and construction | OCU Group, turnkey commissioning of the 275 kV bay, protection, SCADA and all skids, three months |
| Entered operation | 2022-04 (due at announcement) |
| Container count | 28 x 33 kV skids, each an RMU with its own 33kV/400V transformer |
| Transformers | 275/33 kV supergrid transformer; 2 x 33kV/400V auxiliaries; 8 panel 33 kV switchboard; 28 skid transformers |
| Connection voltage | 275 kV documented: NGET connection at 275 kV, commissioned bay |
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 PINFB, all 4 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