Electric Insights

This quarter revealed both sides of Britain’s clean-power transition. On 22 April, zero-carbon sources supplied 98.8% of electricity for half an hour, with gas squeezed […]

Britain’s energy system is being pulled in every direction at once: we have record levels of renewable generation but bills remain stubbornly high, security is […]

After years of stagnation, Britain’s solar sector has returned to rapid growth. Last quarter saw record generation, surpassing 15 GW on an April afternoon. However, […]

Britain has been scorched this summer. June saw more days reach above 30°C than the whole of the 1980s. Kew Gardens recorded a full month […]

July brought another change at the top of British politics, as Andy Burnham succeeded Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Burnham inherits a clean power programme […]

Solar PV was the fastest-growing source of capacity, with the fleet expanding by 2 GW over the last 12 months. The expansion included the 60 […]

Britain’s power system broke a string of clean energy records during the quarter. Solar power surged past 15 GW for the first time on 23 […]