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About Whitelee battery
Whitelee battery is a battery storage site at Whitelee wind farm, south of Glasgow. It began operating in October 2021.
Its 50 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.
| Type | Battery storage |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 50 MW |
| Operational since | October 2021 (REPD) |
| Area | South Lanarkshire |
| Location | At Whitelee wind farm, south of Glasgow 55.696° N, 4.171° W |
| Owner or operator | ScottishPower |
| Elexon lead party | SP Renewables (UK) Limited |
| BM unit | T_WHLWB-1 50 MW |
| Size | 54th largest of the 79 battery storage sites on GridMonkey's list |
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- Hams Hall 400 MW, Warwickshire
- Monk Fryston 320 MW, North Yorkshire
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- 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
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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. Operational date 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.