Electric Insights

The start of 2021 saw unusually cold weather coupled with plant outages, which created very tight supply margins throughout January.

The Texas blackout dominated the newspaper headlines in February.

Britain moved one step closer to its 2024/25 target of phasing out coal power completely, while biomass generation hit new record highs.

A new power link between the UK and France went online in January, meaning Britain’s interconnector capacity has doubled over the last decade to 6 GW.

At the start of March Britain experienced its longest spell of low wind output in more than a decade.

Electricity production from gas rose 20% from this time last year, driven by lower wind output and continued nuclear outages.

March the 28th was a record-breaking day for Britain’s power system.