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About Native River
Native River is a battery storage site at Capenhurst, near Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire. It began operating in April 2025. It is one of three batteries at Capenhurst, with Zenobē's Capenhurst battery and Capenhurst Lane.
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 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.
| Type | Battery storage |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 57 MW |
| Operational since | April 2025 (REPD) |
| Area | Cheshire |
| Location | At Capenhurst, near Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire 53.265° N, 2.946° W |
| Operator in REPD | Varco Energy (REPD) |
| Elexon lead party | Arenko Cleantech Limited |
| BM unit | T_NTRVB-1 57 MW |
| Size | 27th 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.