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About Monk Fryston
Monk Fryston is a battery storage site in North Yorkshire.
Its 320 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across 4 balancing mechanism units. 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.
SSE's Monk Fryston battery is still being built: SSE said in May 2026 that battery installation continues, and it had sent no power by late October 2026. The league table lists it without a rank until it is running in full.
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.
| Type | Battery storage |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 320 MW |
| Status now | Not yet running in full (SSE; Elexon) |
| Area | North Yorkshire |
| Location | 53.754° N, 1.268° W |
| Owner or operator | SSE |
| Elexon lead party | SSE Battery Monk Fryston Ltd |
| BM units | T_MNFRB-1 80 MW, T_MNFRB-2 80 MW, T_MNFRB-3 80 MW, T_MNFRB-4 80 MW |
| Size | 3rd largest of the 79 battery storage sites on GridMonkey's list |
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- Hams Hall 400 MW, Warwickshire
- Kilmarnock South 313 MW, East Ayrshire
- Thurrock 300 MW, Essex
- Sheaf 249 MW, Kent
- Uskmouth 232 MW, Newport
- Blackhillock 208 MW, Moray
- Thornton 200 MW, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Ferrybridge 152 MW, West Yorkshire
- Wilton battery 150 MW, Teesside
- Iron Acton 121 MW, South Gloucestershire
- Capenhurst 105 MW, Cheshire
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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. 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.