Live Grid Data

Drax power station, North Yorkshire, UK.
Drax power station at sunset, Yorkshire, UK.

Current GB Electricity Generation & Imports

 
 
 

Grid data by category

 
 

% of installed generating capacity currently in use

 

Interconnector transfers (imports/exports)

 
 
 

The North Sea link interconnector between England and Norway opened in 2021 and is the world’s longest subsea electricity interconnector. It has a current capacity of 1400MW. Eleclink opened in 2022, has a capacity of 1200MW and runs through the channel tunnel.

UK energy & GHG data records

Increasing renewables in electricity generation 1996-2021

 

The decline of British coal

 

Greenhouse gas emissions 1990-2022

 

Carbon dioxide emissions by sector

 

Data Sources

Current generation data, except solar, is licensed and obtained from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) API feed produced by Elexon. Solar and embedded wind generation data comes from the Electricity System Operator (ESO) (a division of National Grid) feed. Current generation data is updated at 10-minute intervals; embedded generation data and detailed transfers (imports/exports) data updates every 30 minutes. Historic generation data comes from UK Gov’t Electricity Statistics.

Implementation

Electricity generation information displayed on this page has been obtained from BMRS and ESO raw data feeds and stored and organised in Google spreadsheets. A Google apps script is triggered to run every 10 (BMRS) or 30 (National Grid) minutes to refresh the data feeds and update the spreadsheets. This web page uses JavaScript to retrieve data from the spreadsheets and the Google Charts library to produce the charts shown.