CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED
ActiveKey figures
† CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.
Ratios
2025Sector comparison
SIC 06200Where the company stands among the 227 active companies whose first SIC code is 06200 (Extraction of natural gas).
- EQUINOR UK LIMITED£4.4bn
- INEOS UK E&P HOLDINGS LIMITED£864.2m
- IRANIAN OIL COMPANY (U.K.) LIMITED£506.3m
- KELLAS CATS LIMITED£408.9m
- CENTRICA OFFSHORE INVESTMENTS LIMITED£241.3m
- INEOS UK SNS LIMITED£120.7m
- CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED£44m
- PERENCO NORTH SEA LIMITED£42.4m
- HOLFORD GAS STORAGE LIMITED£14.7m
- DART ENERGY (EUROPE) LIMITED£11m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 227. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED
What kind of company is it?
CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 03294124. It was incorporated on 18 Dec 1996. Its status is active. The registered office is in Hessle (HU13). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is extraction of natural gas (06200), distribution of gaseous fuels through mains (35220), transport via pipeline (49500), other business support service activities n.e.c. (82990).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £185,000,000. Net assets were £44,000,000, up 22.2% on the previous year. Total assets were £332,000,000 and total liabilities £288,000,000. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2025).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 227 active companies whose first SIC code is 06200: By net assets it ranks higher than 93% of them (median £17,314). By total assets it ranks higher than 95% of them (median £87,301). It is older than 91% of them (median age 11.3 years).
Has it received government grants?
It is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants worth £3.4m, mainly from Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
What do public registers and reports show?
HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly machinery. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 40 days to pay suppliers, and 10% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 39% lower than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 6 years.
Who runs and controls the company?
One person with significant control is registered.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 15 Feb 2027.
Filed accounts2024–2025
| 2024 † | 2025 † | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 194,000,000 | 185,000,000 |
| Total assets | — | 332,000,000 |
| Total liabilities | 285,000,000 | 288,000,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 36,000,000 | 44,000,000 |
| Average number of employees | 239 | — |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Government grants
3 grantsCENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITED is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants since 2020, together worth £3.4m.
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 2 grants · £3.1m
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 1 grant · £323.8k
- Centrica Storage Limited Contingent Grant PaymentDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £2,562,784 · Centrica Storage Limited Contingent Grant
- Zero Carbon Humber PartnershipDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £494,952 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- Zero Carbon Humber PartnershipDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £323,818 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 40 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 10%
- Standard payment terms
- 30–60 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 45%
- 31 to 60 days 52%
- After 60 days 3%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 39
- 48%
- 9%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 41
- 44%
- 11%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 39
- 48%
- 5%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 41
- 40%
- 5%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 47
- 39%
- 10%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 44
- 32%
- 14%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 47
- 13%
- 12%
- Median hourly pay
- women 39% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 27.9% lower
- Median bonus pay
- women 35.6% lower
- Employer size
- 250 to 499 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 19.5% lower
- women 14.2% lower
- 2023/24
- women 34.2% lower
- women 28.5% lower
- 2022/23
- women 45.1% lower
- women 35.1% lower
- 2021/22
- women 35% lower
- women 31.5% lower
- 2020/21
- women 45.7% lower
- women 37.6% lower
- 2019/20
- women 46.6% lower
- women 34.7% lower
- 2018/19
- women 40.8% lower
- women 32.5% lower
- 2017/18
- women 36.8% lower
- women 30.9% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2026
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
- 2025
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
- 2024
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
Earlier years (3)
- 2023
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
- 2022
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (CENTRICA PLC)
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 2 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: machinery.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
5 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £185m, net assets £44m
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £194m, net assets £36m, 239 employees
- Name changed to CENTRICA ENERGY STORAGE LIMITEDPreviously CENTRICA STORAGE LIMITED
- Centrica Storage Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Company incorporatedPrivate limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.