{"id":1786,"date":"2022-12-14T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:00:50","slug":"power-system-records-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Power system records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr Iain Staffell, Professor Richard Green, Professor Tim Green and Dr Malte Jansen&nbsp;&#8211; Imperial College London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarter 3 saw very few records broken: just three out of the 200+ records we track.&nbsp; Most notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/electricinsights.co.uk\/#\/dashboard?period=1-month&amp;start=2022-08-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">August was by far the most expensive month<\/a> ever for generating electricity.&nbsp; The average wholesale price reached over \u00a3350\/MWh, smashing the previous record of \u00a3230\/MWh set back in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electricinsights.co.uk\/#\/dashboard?start=2022-07-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exports of electricity once again reached record highs<\/a> through July, peaking at the end of the month with more than one-fifth of the electricity generated here sent abroad.&nbsp; On the <a href=\"https:\/\/electricinsights.co.uk\/#\/dashboard?start=2022-07-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<sup>st<\/sup> of July<\/a>, more than 10% of Britain\u2019s electricity generation was sent to France alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/electricinsights.co.uk\/#\/dashboard?start=2022-07-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">27<sup>th<\/sup> of July<\/a> high winds combined with low demand to mean that less than 5 GW of electricity generation came from \u2018conventional\u2019 sources (i.e. not wind or solar) for the first time ever.&nbsp; National Grid is preparing to be ready to run a zero-carbon power system (with no fossil generation at all for individual hours) by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tables below look over the past decade (2009 to 2022) and report the record output and share of electricity generation, plus sustained averages over a day, a month and a calendar year. [1]&nbsp; Cells highlighted in blue are records that were broken in the first half of 2022.&nbsp; Each number links to the date it occurred on the Electric Insights website, so these records can be explored visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2802\" height=\"6640\" src=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7.png 2802w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7-127x300.png 127w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7-768x1820.png 768w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7-432x1024.png 432w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7-648x1536.png 648w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-7-864x2048.png 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2802px) 100vw, 2802px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>[1]<\/sup> The annual records relate to full calendar years, so cover the period of 2009 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>[2]<\/sup> Note that Britain has no inter-seasonal electricity storage, so we only report on half-hourly and daily records.&nbsp; Elexon and National Grid only report the output of large pumped hydro storage plants.&nbsp; The operation of battery, flywheel and other storage sites is not publicly available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarter 3 saw very few records broken: just three out of the 200+ records we track.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q3-2022"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}