Bulphan Fen battery storage

Bulphan Fen is a 57 MW battery storage site near Bulphan, by Upminster, in Essex. Is it running right now? Its live output from Elexon, the GB electricity market's data service, and every half hour of the last week.

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About Bulphan Fen

Bulphan Fen is a battery storage site near Bulphan, by Upminster, in Essex. It shares its site with Bulphan Fen Solar Farm, which has a live page of its own.

Its 57 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across one balancing mechanism unit. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.

Battery stations charge when power is cheap and plentiful and discharge at the peaks, in seconds. Their output swings between charging and discharging through the day.

Bulphan Fen
Where Bulphan Fen is. From its REPD location. Map outline: Natural Earth.
TypeBattery storage
Registered capacity57 MW
AreaEssex
LocationNear Bulphan, by Upminster, in Essex
51.539° N, 0.340° E
Elexon lead partyEDF Energy Customers Limited
BM unit T_BLPFB-1 57 MW
Size23rd largest of the 79 battery storage sites on GridMonkey's list

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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names and areas come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a station's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Location: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, July 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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