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Fast-response flexibility

Battery storage

Grid-scale batteries absorb and return electricity in seconds, helping balance short-term changes in supply and demand.

Battery storage · installed / connected capacity7.51 GW

Grid-scale battery power capacity at end-2025. Battery energy capacity is not published in REPD.

Energy capacity (MWh): not published in the source dataset

Observed battery fleet

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Current battery project pipeline

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Battery build-out

Installed power capacity

UK grid-scale battery capacity rose almost twelve-fold between 2018 and 2025.

DUKES 5.16
0.6 GW2018
0.9 GW2019
1.1 GW2020
1.5 GW2021
2.3 GW2022
3.8 GW2023
5.2 GW2024
7.5 GW2025

Individual locations

Largest and selected sites

Installed power capacity and location from the latest official list.

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SiteTypeRegionPower
Kilmarnock SouthBatteryScotland300 MW
Thurrock Flexible GenerationBatteryEast of England150 MW
Kirkhaw LaneBatteryNorth West150 MW
Cleve HillBatterySouth East150 MW
CapenhurstBatteryNorth West100 MW
Minchens LaneBatterySouth East100 MW
Capacity & sitesDUKES 5.16 + REPD
Snapshot date2025 / July 2026
Live & historyElexon PN · MEL · B1610