01The pulse
Time
12:00 am
Price
£210.92/MWh
Emissions
183g/kWh
Demand
26.7GW
=
Generation
26.1GW
+
Transfers
0.6GW
Great Britain · Live grid data · Updated 12:00 am
02The mix
Generation
Generation
26.1GW
97.7%
Note: percentages are relative to demand, so will exceed 100% if power is being exported
41.7% fossil fuels
Natural Gas11.12GW41.7%
Coal—GW —%
24.3% renewables
Wind5.86GW22.0%
Hydroelectric0.62GW2.3%
Solar—GW —%
31.7% low-carbon & other
Nuclear5.12GW19.2%
Biomass3.34GW12.5%
0.9% interconnectors
Norway1.40GW5.2%
Ireland1.09GW4.1%
Netherlands0.11GW0.4%
Denmark0.07GW0.3%
France0.04GW0.1%
Belgium—GW —%
1.4% storage
Pumped storage0.38GW1.4%
Battery storage—GW —%
·Carbon intensity
183
gCO₂ / kWh
Moderate
An average mix of clean and fossil generation.
Very Low
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Moderate
High
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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 2428.5% of demand.
Live wind
5.86 GW
2196.3% of national demand
Clean total
14.94 GW
low-carbon generation now
Wind + solar right now
5.86 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
183g/kWh
Min
132
Avg
180
Max
217
04The dispatch