Interim Results for period ended 30 June 2026
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23 September 2026
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc
("GRID" or the "Company")
Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2026
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (LSE: GRID), the UK's largest listed fund investing in utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2026. All figures presented are unaudited.
John Leggate CBE, Chair of Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc, commented:
"The first half of 2026 marked the transition of our Growth Plan from preparation to delivery. In the space of six months, the Company acquired or conditionally acquired over one gigawatt of new capacity, fully funded the first three projects totalling 397MW and got them into construction. We also made solid progress with augmentations of the existing portfolio and successfully completed a trial of the Alternative Revenues strategy.
"We took each of these steps with one objective: to grow the Company's earnings and Net Asset Value and deliver tangible value for shareholders. Our progress in the period is reflected by the increase in the Company's Net Asset Value of 15.8% to 131.30p per share at 30 June 2026, up from 113.34p at 31 December 2025, an early sign of the value that begins to crystallise as projects move into construction.
"Battery storage is strategically vital infrastructure for the UK's energy security and operationally necessary in its transition to clean power, and GRID remains the sector's largest and most established listed owner-operator. The Board remains confident that the delivery of our plan will translate into tangible, sustainable and attractive total returns for shareholders."
H1 2026 Highlights
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NAV per share of 131.30p as at 30 June 2026, up 15.8% (31 Dec 2025: 113.34p), with NAV rising to £747.2mn (31 Dec 2025: £645.0mn). The biggest driver was the revaluation of the 397MW of projects now under construction on a discounted cash flow basis, previously having been held at cost. |
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Portfolio revenues of £34.7mn and EBITDA of £23.5mn, up 9.5% and 14.5% respectively from H1 2025, despite certain assets being offline some of the time for maintenance and scheduled augmentation works. |
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Contracted revenues rose to 61% of total revenues (H1 2025: 35%), continuing to de-risk the portfolio's revenue profile, with annualised revenue generated per operational MW during H1 2026 of £63,200 (H1 2025: £75,100). |
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Operational capacity of 1,072MW / 1,853MWh (31 Dec 2025: 1,072MW / 1,701MWh), an average duration of 1.73 hours, following the completion of augmentations at Glassenbury and Stairfoot adding 152MWh in the period. |
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397MW of new projects acquired and under construction. The first three pipeline projects, Cockenzie, Monets Garden and Elland 2, reached financial close in May 2026, having raised £141mn of senior project finance and agreed a further £30mn in export credit agency-backed facilities. Construction is now under way, with target energisation in H2 2027 for Monets Garden and Elland 2 and H1 2028 for Cockenzie. |
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An additional 777MW of new projects conditionally acquired in May 2026. Ocker Hill (240MW), Lister Drive (57MW) and Rayleigh (480MW). The resulting 1,174MW of new projects will more than double the size of the Company's operational portfolio, once built and energised. |
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Strategic Joint Venture endorses GRID's valuations. In May 2026, the Company announced a strategic partnership with Summit Transition Partners (STP), itself a joint venture between Sumitomo Corporation and TPK Holdings, which acquired 25% stakes in Cockenzie, Monets Garden and Elland 2 at a premium to carrying value and secures a long-term partnership to support GRID's future growth. |
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Ocker Hill included in Ofgem's provisional LDES cap and floor awards. Ofgem provisionally included Ocker Hill in its list of projects set to receive 25-year cap and floor contracts under the UK Government's Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) scheme. Final awards are expected in autumn 2026. |
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Alternative Revenues trial exceeded expectations. Following the initial trial, in May 2026, the Company signed a route-to-market contract to begin scaling towards a target of 20MW by the end of 2026. |
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Net debt of £171.4mn, equivalent to 23% of NAV (31 Dec 2025: £159.3mn / 25%), comfortably within the Company's 50% investment policy limit. |
Progress on the Growth Plan
In November 2024, the Company announced its Three-year Plan to grow the portfolio and identify new revenue streams. At the Capital Markets Webinar in May 2026, the Manager presented a revised set of targets, evolving the Three-year Plan into the Growth Plan. The changes share a single rationale: to direct the Company's capital towards the strategies that generate the highest returns for shareholders per pound invested.
Under the original plan, augmenting the existing portfolio to two-hour duration offered the highest return on the Company's capital - up to 1.5GWh targeting c.£33mn of additional EBITDA - ahead of a 680MW new-build pipeline that would have called substantially on the Company's own capital. Three financing innovations have since changed that assessment: project-level senior debt, export credit agency-backed equipment financing and the strategic joint venture with STP. Together they fund the majority of each new project without the need to issue equity at the Company level, so a megawatt of new capacity now requires only a fraction of the Company's capital that it previously would have.
The Growth Plan therefore reallocates capital towards an enlarged new project pipeline, with the Rayleigh project (480MW) largely offsetting a reduction in planned augmentations on the existing portfolio. The updated plan also takes account of the delays in getting connection offers back, in the context of NESO's Queue. It requires only c.£25mn of equity against the c.£300mn previously envisaged - a reduction of more than 90% in the capital required from the Company. The trade-off is a modestly lower EBITDA target of £141mn, compared with £150mn, targeted for late 2029.
Funding of the new pipeline
The Company completed three transactions in the period, which together form its new project funding model:
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A strategic joint venture with STP, which acquired 25% stakes in the holding companies of Cockenzie, Monets Garden and Elland 2 at a premium to the carrying value, crystallising part of the value the Company had already created in acquiring and de-risking the project rights. STP holds exclusivity over similar interests in Lister Drive and Ocker Hill, with a right of first offer on Rayleigh. |
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Export credit agency-backed facilities, the first of their kind in the UK BESS market, which defer 50% of the battery equipment payments over ten years at a fixed rate priced off SONIA + 160bps. These fund half of the BESS cost for Cockenzie and Monets Garden. |
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Senior project finance across the first three projects, covering up to 70% of total project costs, with amortisation profiles of 15 years or more and a flat margin of 250bps over SONIA. A variable repayment structure allows the amortisation profile to flex in weaker revenue environments, protecting debt service coverage. |
The combination fully funds the first three projects, involves no cross-collateralisation between projects or with the operational portfolio, and provides a repeatable template that is already being applied to the remainder of the pipeline. The Company has raised project-level equity at a premium to carrying value, retains 75% of the economics of each project for a small fraction of the capital it would otherwise have committed, and the pipeline is revalued on a DCF basis once construction commences.
Valuations and portfolio performance
The GRID attributable portfolio increased revenues and EBITDA compared to H1 2025, up 9.5% and 14.5% respectively, which included £1.1mn in revenue earned from liquidated damages due to the late commissioning of the West Bradford project. Revenue growth was primarily driven by the increase in operational MW capacity, with revenue generated per operational MW decreasing to £63,200 / MW versus £75,100 / MW in H1 2025, due to a weaker merchant revenue environment and the unavailability of certain assets while augmentation and maintenance works were completed.
The proportion of underlying portfolio revenues coming from contracted revenues increased to 61% (H1 2025: 35%), de-risking the portfolio's revenue profile. Contracted revenues are predominantly from tolling, accounting for nearly a third of all revenue, while Capacity Market revenues increased from 11% to 17% as the operational portfolio has seen new contracts starting over the last year. The portfolio's EBITDA margin increased from 65% to 68% through more efficient management of the cost base, primarily through lower O&M, business rates and insurance costs.
NAV per share increased by 17.96p (15.8%) during the period to 131.30p, up from 113.34p at 31 December 2025. The primary driver was the revaluation in Q2 2026 of the first three new projects, totalling 397MW, after completing their financing and beginning construction. This added 14.33p per share to NAV, illustrating the significant value created by continuing to grow the portfolio. The remaining pipeline projects, totalling 777MW, are currently held at cost on the balance sheet and represent further value creation potential not currently recognised in the NAV.
More on valuations and portfolio performance can be found in the Trading Update released on 2 September 2026 and in the accompanying Interim Report.
Alternative Revenues
The Alternative Revenues strategy has now progressed from concept to delivery, and its target under the Growth Plan remains unchanged at £25mn of incremental annualised EBITDA. These revenues are additive, sitting on top of the existing revenue stack rather than displacing it. They are inversely correlated with the current trading strategy, performing best in the flat, low-volatility markets where that strategy performs worst. The strategy has been extensively validated, both through back-testing across many years of volatile market conditions and through live revenue trials.
With an agreement now signed with a route-to-market provider, a measured, staged scale-up is under way during 2026 and 2027, ultimately building to cover around half of the portfolio. Because the strategy is delivered across assets the Company already owns, it requires only incremental capital, making it one of the highest-returning uses of funds available to the Company. With a targeted capacity of 20MW by the end of 2026, the impact of Alternative Revenues is not expected to be material to the Company and, as such, there is currently no inclusion of Alternative Revenues in the Company's reported NAV. More information is provided in the Interim Report.
Ben Guest, Fund Manager of Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc & Managing Director of Gresham House Energy Transition, added:
"The first half of 2026 has been a period of intense focus, executing the milestones in our Growth Plan. During the period, GRID completed three transactions - a strategic joint venture with STP, export credit agency-backed facilities and senior project finance - which together form a repeatable funding model that reduces the total capital required from the Company by more than 90% and transforms the return on the equity our shareholders have invested.
"Our priorities for the second half of the year are clearly defined, and each translates directly into earnings and NAV per share growth. While our objective of maximising shareholder returns remains as steadfast as we set out in November 2024, the ways to achieve it have strengthened in the period. We remain focused on driving value from the operational asset base as well as the design, procurement and funding of the next set of projects, scaling Alternative Revenues to a meaningful level, and progressing the 2026 augmentation programme."
Interim Results webinar
Gresham House will host a webinar for investors at 10:00am BST today. To access the live webinar, please register in advance here.
The Company's Interim Report and Financial Statements for the period ending 30 June 2026 are available on the Company's website at: https://greshamhouse.com/grid and will shortly be available on the FCA's National Storage Mechanism: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
ENDS
For further information, please contact:
Gresham House Energy Transition +44 (0) 20 3837 6270
Ben Guest
James Bustin
Harry Hutchinson
Jefferies International Limited +44 (0) 20 7029 8000
Gaudi Le Roux
Stuart Klein
Harry Randall
Peel Hunt +44 (0) 20 7418 8900
Luke Simpson
Huw Jeremy
KL Communications +44 (0) 20 3882 6644
Charles Gorman
Henry Taylor
gh@kl-communications.com
JTC (UK) Limited as Company Secretary +44 (0) 20 7409 0181
Ruth Wright
GHEnergyStorageCoSec@jtcgroup.com
LEI: 213800MSJXKH25C23D82
About the Company and the Manager
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc aims to invest in a diversified portfolio of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (known as BESS) located in Great Britain and internationally. The Company seeks to provide investors with the prospect of capital growth through the re-investment of net cash generated in excess of its target dividend in accordance with the Company's investment policy.
Gresham House Asset Management Ltd is the FCA authorised operating business of Gresham House Ltd, a specialist alternative asset manager. Gresham House is committed to operating responsibly and sustainably, taking the long view in delivering sustainable investment solutions.
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Definition of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS)
Utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) are the enabling infrastructure that will support the continued growth of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, essential to the UK's stated target to reduce carbon emissions. They store excess energy generated by renewable energy sources and then release that stored energy back into the grid during peak hours when there is increased demand.
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