Great Britain’s electricity system, right now
What Great Britain is generating, using and importing, read from Elexon every five minutes, with the batteries the published mix cannot see drawn inside it, unit by unit.
Live · Elexon, read this minute
Where the power is coming from, and where it is going
Reading the system.
Reading the flows.
The flow as a table
The batteries, one by one
Reading the fleet.
Reading the fleet.
The last 24 hours
Generation by fuel, stacked, with the demand the system had to meet drawn over it. Where the line sits above the stack, the cables are bringing power in. Beneath it, on the same clock, what the batteries did: above their line they are sending power out, below it they are taking it in.
Reading the day.
Frequency
The last ten minutes, read every fifteen seconds. The target is 50.00 Hz and the shaded band is a tenth either side of it.
Reading the frequency.
The cables
Flow on each interconnector this minute. Imports to the right, exports to the left, in megawatts.
Reading the interconnectors.
Generation by fuel from Elexon’s FUELINST, every five minutes. Frequency every fifteen seconds. Demand outturn every half hour. The battery fleet from Elexon notifications, every five minutes. Elexon publishes no line for batteries, so the fleet is read unit by unit from the balancing mechanism. Solar is not in the published mix and is not estimated here. Nothing on this page is modelled. How the fleet is read