01The pulse
Time
6:50 pm
Price
£211.08/MWh
Emissions
157g/kWh
Demand
28.8GW
=
Generation
29.0GW
+
Transfers
0.2GW
Great Britain · Live grid data · Updated 6:50 pm
02The mix
Generation
Generation
29.0GW
100.6%
Note: percentages are relative to demand, so will exceed 100% if power is being exported
38.0% fossil fuels
Natural Gas10.96GW38.0%
Coal—GW —%
39.6% renewables
Wind10.73GW37.2%
Hydroelectric0.51GW1.8%
Solar0.18GW0.6%
23.0% low-carbon & other
Nuclear3.32GW11.5%
Biomass3.30GW11.4%
3.4% interconnectors
Norway1.40GW4.9%
Denmark0.80GW2.8%
France0.74GW2.6%
Ireland0.58GW2.0%
Belgium0.25GW0.9%
Netherlands—GW —%
2.8% storage
Pumped storage0.80GW2.8%
Battery storage—GW —%
·Carbon intensity
157
gCO₂ / kWh
Moderate
An average mix of clean and fossil generation.
Very Low
Low
Moderate
High
Very High
03The signals
·The long game
Coal is history. What's next?
Britain's transition, charted from the first turbine to today.
Britain is shifting from fossil fuels to wind-led clean power. Right now, wind is a major part of the generation mix, and renewables are supplying 3966.7% of demand.
Live wind
10.73 GW
3727.1% of national demand
Clean total
18.04 GW
low-carbon generation now
Wind + solar right now
10.91 GW
Variable renewables currently on the grid
Historical record and milestone data require a long-term data store and are not yet available without the database.
Trends
Historical performance
Track how Britain's grid behaves across time from the last day to the long-term transition.
Choose a metric
Carbon
157g/kWh
Min
34
Avg
81
Max
157
04The dispatch