Hawkers Hill battery storage

Hawkers Hill is a 20 MW battery storage site near Motcombe, by Shaftesbury, in Dorset. 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 Hawkers Hill

Hawkers Hill is a battery storage site near Motcombe, by Shaftesbury, in Dorset. It began operating in October 2022.

Its 20 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 has recorded it every half hour since it was added to the list in October 2026, 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.

Hawkers Hill
Where Hawkers Hill is. From its REPD location. Map outline: Natural Earth.
TypeBattery storage
Registered capacity20 MW
Operational sinceOctober 2022 (REPD)
AreaDorset
LocationNear Motcombe, by Shaftesbury, in Dorset
51.014° N, 2.213° W
Operator in REPDTag Energy (REPD)
Elexon lead partyTesla Motors Limited
BM unit E_HAWKB-1 20 MW
Size78th 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 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. Operator, operational date, area and 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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