{"id":1463,"date":"2021-02-15T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:43:56","slug":"power-system-records-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Power system records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Iain Staffell, Professor Richard Green, Professor Tim Green, Professor Rob Gross and Dr Malte Jansen -Imperial College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020 was yet another year of extremes, with the power system moving further into new territory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as in 2019, all clean electricity sources broke their previous annual production records.&nbsp;Wind, solar and biomass reached all-time highs in 2020, while nuclear fell to its lowest output in over a decade.&nbsp;2020 also saw the lowest electricity production from coal and fossil fuels, the lowest demand, lowest price and lowest carbon emissions in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tables below look over the past decade (2009 to 2020) and report the record output and share of electricity generation, plus sustained averages over a day, a month and a calendar year.<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/605D0460-06D7-4014-9BE0-D26CE1372FEB#_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Cells highlighted in blue are records that were broken in the fourth quarter of 2020.&nbsp;Each number links to the date it occurred on the Electric Insights website, allowing these records to be explored visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1880\" height=\"4985\" src=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1506\" class=\"wp-image-1506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1.png 1880w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1-113x300.png 113w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1-768x2036.png 768w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1-386x1024.png 386w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1-579x1536.png 579w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20Q4_7.1-772x2048.png 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1880px) 100vw, 1880px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/605D0460-06D7-4014-9BE0-D26CE1372FEB#_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;The annual records relate to calendar years, covering the period of 2009 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/sup>&nbsp;Note that Britain has no inter-seasonal electricity storage, so we only report on half-hourly and daily records.&nbsp;&nbsp;Elexon and National Grid only report the output of large pumped hydro storage plants.&nbsp;&nbsp;The operation of battery, flywheel and other storage sites is not publicly available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 was yet another year of extremes, with the power system moving further into new 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