Thornton battery storage

Thornton is a 200 MW battery storage site east of Thornton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. 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 Thornton

Thornton is a battery storage site east of Thornton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Its 200 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.

Thornton
Where Thornton is. REPD's grid reference is about 1 km out, so the map uses OpenStreetMap's position for the battery, beside Thornton substation. Map outline: Natural Earth.
TypeBattery storage
Registered capacity200 MW
AreaEast Riding of Yorkshire
LocationEast of Thornton in the East Riding of Yorkshire
53.901° N, 0.825° W
Operator in REPDStatkraft (REPD)
Elexon lead partyStatkraft Markets Gmbh
BM unit T_BLWNB-1 200 MW
Size9th 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 and area: 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. Map position: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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