UK electricity history
How Britain's electricity has been made, from the last 24 hours back to 2009.
Since 2009, gas made the most electricity (34%), then nuclear (18%). Renewables made 22%, and the average carbon intensity was 285 g/kWh.
Electricity generated, by source
TWh a month
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- Nuclear
- Gas
- Hydro
- Imports
- Biomass
- Pumped storage
- Wind
- Solar
- Coal
- Other
Share of electricity, by source
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Carbon intensity
g COâ‚‚ per kWh, monthly average
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Totals
| Source | Electricity | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | 1846.7 TWh | 34.4% |
| Nuclear | 964.6 TWh | 18.0% |
| Coal | 827.1 TWh | 15.4% |
| Wind | 825.2 TWh | 15.4% |
| Imports | 410.9 TWh | 7.7% |
| Solar | 159.8 TWh | 3.0% |
| Biomass | 155.4 TWh | 2.9% |
| Other | 73.7 TWh | 1.4% |
| Hydro | 61.5 TWh | 1.1% |
| Pumped storage | 41.8 TWh | 0.8% |
| Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass) | 22.4% | |
| Low carbon (renewable plus nuclear) | 40.4% |
Year by year
About this data
Since 2009 the mix comes from NESO's historic generation mix, half-hour by half-hour, summed into days and months. The last few days come from Elexon's metered generation plus NESO's estimate of rooftop solar, in the same groupings. Day and week views use our own half-hourly log. Imports are electricity brought in through the interconnectors.
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