01The pulse
Time
5:35 pm
Price
£212.39/MWh
Emissions
141g/kWh
Demand
30.6GW
=
Generation
31.0GW
+
Transfers
0.4GW
Great Britain · Live grid data · Updated 5:35 pm
02The mix
Generation
Generation
31.0GW
101.4%
Note: percentages are relative to demand, so will exceed 100% if power is being exported
34.2% fossil fuels
Natural Gas10.45GW34.2%
Coal—GW —%
45.8% renewables
Wind11.52GW37.7%
Solar1.83GW6.0%
Hydroelectric0.64GW2.1%
21.4% low-carbon & other
Nuclear3.31GW10.8%
Biomass3.21GW10.5%
3.1% interconnectors
Norway1.40GW4.6%
Denmark0.78GW2.6%
France0.76GW2.5%
Belgium0.48GW1.6%
Ireland0.32GW1.0%
Netherlands—GW —%
1.7% storage
Pumped storage0.51GW1.7%
Battery storage—GW —%
·Carbon intensity
141
gCO₂ / kWh
Low
Clean grid, well below average emissions.
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 leading the generation mix, and renewables are supplying 4573.2% of demand.
Live wind
11.52 GW
3766.0% of national demand
Clean total
20.51 GW
low-carbon generation now
Wind + solar right now
13.35 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
141g/kWh
Min
34
Avg
81
Max
155
04The dispatch