Live energy dashboard
Live electricity generation, demand, imports and exports, carbon intensity, prices, frequency and gas flows for Great Britain.
Current electricity demand across Great Britain is the sum of generation in Britain and net transfers with neighbouring countries.
0.19 GW
4.89 GW
0.30 GW from other or misc. sources
Tap or click any source or country for exact figures, interconnector names and observation times.
Share of domestic generation coming from renewable and low-carbon sources.
Renewable share
70.9%
Wind, solar and hydro
Low-carbon share
84.3%
Wind, solar, hydro and nuclear
Individual interconnector cables and their current flow.
Viking Link
Denmark
East-West
Ireland
Moyle
Northern Ireland
ElecLink
France
Greenlink
Ireland
Nemo Link
Belgium
IFA2
France
IFA
France
BritNed
Netherlands
North Sea Link
Norway
Pumped-storage hydro stores electricity by pumping water uphill, then generates it later by letting the water flow back through turbines.
Pumped storage
0.87 GW
Charging
One snapshot, one displayed generation denominator: 29.87 GW, excluding Elexon Other. The doughnut, source percentages, renewable share and low-carbon share all use this named-source generation total. Renewable is wind, solar and hydro; low carbon is those three plus nuclear, with biomass excluded. Signed interconnector and pumped-storage flows are added to the same total to give the displayed demand of 24.30 GW. Percentages are rounded only for display, not rescaled.
Wind combines transmission-metered wind with embedded wind from NESO's demand data update. Solar is embedded solar from the same NESO update for the current settlement period. Generation outside the named fuel categories is reported by Elexon under the code OTHER. It is listed separately as other or miscellaneous sources, is not included in the doughnut or breakdown, and is not treated as battery output.
Displayed balance · named-source generation 29.87 GW · net transfers −4.70 GW · pumped storage −872 MW · demand 24.30 GW · other or misc. sources 0.30 GW.
Sources: Elexon BMRS · NESO · Status: delayed · Observation: 02:40 UK time · Coverage: Great Britain
Today
Great Britain · rolling 24 hours · half-hourly
How Great Britain's electricity generation has varied over the last 24 hours.
Tomorrow · Sun 11 Oct
Expected peak demand
21.6 GW
00:00
Published 02:47 · Forecast Great Britain National Demand · Source: Elexon BMRS · NGESO
The system now
Four system-wide indicators, from the same live sources used above.
Carbon intensity
57
Measured half hour to 00:00 · NESO · Great Britain · gCO₂/kWh
Renewable share
70.9%
Low carbon 84.3%
Delayed · Wind, solar and hydro at 02:40 · Elexon/NESO · Great Britain · %
Wholesale price
£43.5/MWh
Settlement period 6
Half hour from 02:30 · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain · £/MWh
Grid frequency
49.97 Hz
−0.027 Hz from 50 Hz
Delayed · Measured at 02:51 · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain · Hz
Live gas
Gas supply, demand and the balance between them on the National Transmission System, published by National Gas Transmission roughly every 12 minutes.
Updated 10 minutes ago · Published 02:47
Current demand, supply and the balance between them on the National Transmission System.
Gas demand
126.59 mcm/day
What Britain is taking off the network right now.
Gas supply
188.72 mcm/day
What is flowing into the network right now.
Supply above demand
+62.12 mcm/day
Difference between the latest instantaneous NTS supply and demand flow rates. Linepack means this is not the same as the system's formal balancing position.
Each route below adds up the entry-point flows National Gas publishes for that group of landing points. The headline supply figure above is National Gas’s own total, not this sum.
Gas piped from Norwegian fields, landing at Easington and St Fergus.
Gas produced from British fields and brought ashore at UK terminals.
Gas released back into the network from British storage facilities.
Liquefied gas delivered by ship and returned to gas at Grain and Milford Haven.
Pipeline links to Belgium and the Netherlands, flowing into Britain.
Into the network
National Transmission System
The high-pressure pipelines that carry gas from entry points to power stations, industry and local gas networks.
Gas currently flowing out of storage sites into the National Transmission System. Storage acts as a buffer, releasing gas when demand is high and refilling when demand is lower.
32.84 mcm/day
330.73 mcm
Linepack is the gas sitting inside the transmission pipelines themselves. It acts like a cushion: when supply runs a little ahead of demand the pipes fill up, and when demand runs ahead they draw down. That is why supply and demand rarely match exactly at any moment.
Tap a row for the site name, its published category and the time of the latest reading.
Source: National Gas Transmission · Instantaneous Flow. Readings are taken about every two minutes and published in sets roughly every 12 minutes. Route groupings are ours; the flows and units are as published.
Historical data
Average megawatts by fuel. Wind is transmission-metered plus embedded wind. Imports and storage are excluded from generation.
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Available historical observations
Great Britain record holders within the stored dataset, not all-time records. Coverage varies by source and may contain gaps.
51.74 GW
Available dataset since February 2016 · 26 Jan 2017, 17:30
Source: Elexon BMRS · ITSDO · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition demand-outturn-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
100.0%
Available dataset since January 2009 · 7 Jul 2026, 11:00
Source: NESO · Historic GB Generation Mix · Coverage: Great Britain · calculated · Definition historic-generation-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
83.1%
Available dataset since January 2009 · 5 Oct 2025, 12:00
Source: NESO · Historic GB Generation Mix · Coverage: Great Britain · calculated · Definition historic-generation-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
16.29 GW
Available dataset since January 2009 · 23 Apr 2026, 13:00
Source: NESO · Historic GB Generation Mix · Coverage: Great Britain · actual or estimated · Definition historic-generation-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
£1983.66/MWh
Available dataset since September 2016 · 9 Sept 2021, 18:30
Source: Elexon BMRS · Market Index Data · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition market-index-volume-weighted-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:30 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
23.88 GW
Available dataset since January 2009 · 25 Mar 2026, 13:30
Source: NESO · Historic GB Generation Mix · Coverage: Great Britain · actual or estimated · Definition historic-generation-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
-0.260 Hz
Available dataset since September 2026 · 9 Oct 2026, 18:50
Source: Elexon BMRS · FREQ · Coverage: Great Britain · instantaneous · Definition frequency-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 02:51 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
7.91 GW
Available dataset since December 2015 · 22 Aug 2024, 04:30
Source: Elexon BMRS · INTOUTHH · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition signed-interconnector-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
9.23 GW
Available dataset since December 2015 · 23 Mar 2025, 09:00
Source: Elexon BMRS · INTOUTHH · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition signed-interconnector-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
0.241 Hz
Available dataset since September 2026 · 26 Sept 2026, 11:54
Source: Elexon BMRS · FREQ · Coverage: Great Britain · instantaneous · Definition frequency-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 02:51 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
19 gCO₂/kWh
Available dataset since January 2009 · 15 Apr 2024, 14:30
Source: NESO · Historic GB Generation Mix · Coverage: Great Britain · actual or estimated · Definition historic-generation-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
15.26 GW
Available dataset since February 2016 · 24 May 2026, 13:00
Source: Elexon BMRS · ITSDO · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition demand-outturn-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:00 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
£-99.01/MWh
Available dataset since September 2016 · 6 Sept 2025, 13:30
Source: Elexon BMRS · Market Index Data · Coverage: Great Britain · actual · Definition market-index-volume-weighted-v1
Records calculated up to 10 Oct 2026, 01:30 UK time. Gaps may exist in the available observations.
Largest negative grid-frequency deviation: -0.254 Hz
Previous -0.253 Hz · 0.40% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest negative grid-frequency deviation: -0.260 Hz
Previous -0.254 Hz · 2.36% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest negative grid-frequency deviation: -0.253 Hz
Previous -0.245 Hz · 3.27% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest net electricity import: 8.91 GW
Previous 8.72 GW · 2.09% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest positive grid-frequency deviation: 0.241 Hz
Previous 0.235 Hz · 2.55% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest positive grid-frequency deviation: 0.235 Hz
Previous 0.228 Hz · 3.07% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest positive grid-frequency deviation: 0.228 Hz
Previous 0.226 Hz · 0.88% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Largest positive grid-frequency deviation: 0.226 Hz
Previous 0.225 Hz · 0.44% difference · Elexon BMRS · Great Britain
Daily, monthly, annual and full-coverage extrema are updated from normalized observations in the project database. “All-time” is not used because source coverage differs by metric.
Forecasts
Each source is shown only for its published horizon. Carbon forecasts cover 48 hours and are not extended into the seven-day view.
Expected Great Britain national demand. Half-hour detail is available for today and tomorrow; daily NDFD values cover the medium range where published.
Forecast demand, GW · average MW per settlement period
Tomorrow · Sun 11 Oct
Expected peak demand
21.6 GW
00:00
Published 02:47 · Forecast Great Britain National Demand · Source: Elexon BMRS · NGESO
Forecast embedded wind and solar generation over the selected period, where present in NESO's published file.
Forecast carbon intensity across Great Britain for the API's available 48-hour period.
The two-hour window with the lowest forecast carbon intensity. For a task of a different length or with a deadline, use the cleanest time calculator.
Today
13:00–15:00
22 gCO₂/kWh average
Tomorrow
00:00–02:00
48 gCO₂/kWh average
Expected demand, renewable output and the cleanest window for tomorrow.
Peak demand
21.6 GW
00:00
Wind peak
2.3 GW
00:00
Solar peak
6.7 GW
12:00
Cleanest 2 hours
00:00–02:00
48 gCO₂/kWh
Observed Market Index prices only. energy.org.uk does not forecast wholesale electricity prices.
Current wholesale price
£43.53/MWh
Half hour from 02:30 UK time
Lowest observed so far today
£39.61/MWh
Half hour from 00:30 UK time
Highest observed so far today
£47.56/MWh
Half hour from 02:00 UK time
Source: Elexon BMRS · Market Index Data · Great Britain · £/MWh
The energy transition
At this snapshot, wind, solar and hydro supply 70.9% of domestic generation. Wind is the largest single generation source in this snapshot at 20.77 GW. Great Britain is exporting 4.70 GW across interconnectors, while pumped storage is currently charging. These figures describe this observation only, not annual generation.
Delayed data. Generated from the reconciled snapshot at 10 October 2026, 02:40 UK time. Sources: Elexon BMRS · NESO Demand Data Update.
DESNZ annual electricity statistics report that renewables accounted for 52.1% of UK generation in 2025. This includes wind, solar, hydro and bioenergy, not wind and solar alone. Low-carbon sources, defined in these annual statistics as nuclear plus renewables, accounted for 64.3%. 2025 was the first full year without coal generation.
These are full-year UK figures, including Northern Ireland, rather than the Great Britain live snapshot above. The largest source and renewable share at any particular moment can differ from the annual mix; one observation does not establish a long-term trend.
Source: DESNZ, Digest of UK Energy Statistics, Chapter 5: Electricity, annual data for 2025.
How this is measured
Electricity generation comes from Elexon's five-minute FUELINST feed for Great Britain. Interconnector flows are taken from the same observation, so generation and transfers always describe the same moment. Imports are positive and exports negative.
Pumped storage is positive when generating and negative when charging. Embedded wind and solar are published separately by NESO and are labelled wherever they are used. Carbon intensity is from the NESO Carbon Intensity API, and household rates come from Ofgem.
When a source is late, the most recent valid observation is shown and labelled delayed. Missing data is never treated as zero, and a figure that cannot be verified is marked unavailable rather than estimated.
Sources used on this page
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