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About Markinch
Markinch is a biomass power station at Markinch, near Glenrothes, in Fife. It was commissioned in 2014. It is a combined heat and power plant: it also supplies heat to the Glenrothes Energy Network.
Elexon registers its one balancing mechanism unit at 86 MW, but DUKES 5.11, the government's list of power stations, gives it 61 MW, and that is the capacity this page uses. 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.
Biomass stations burn wood pellets or other plant material instead of fossil fuel. The two biggest, Drax and Lynemouth, were coal-fired until they were converted.
| Type | Biomass |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 61 MW (DUKES 5.11) |
| Registered capacity | 86 MW (Elexon) |
| Commissioned | 2014 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | Fife |
| Location | At Markinch, near Glenrothes, in Fife 56.201° N, 3.162° W |
| Owner or operator | RWE |
| Elexon lead party | Edgware Energy Limited |
| BM unit | E_MARK-1 86 MW |
| Size | 5th largest of the 6 biomass power stations on GridMonkey's list |
Other biomass power stations
- Drax 2,737 MW, North Yorkshire
- Lynemouth 420 MW, Northumberland
- Tees Renewable Energy Plant 285 MW, Teesside
- Wilton 182 MW, Teesside
- Tilbury Green 43 MW, Essex
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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names, areas and owners or operators 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. Capacity, year commissioned and location: Power stations in the United Kingdom (DUKES 5.11) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, May 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.