{"id":1789,"date":"2022-12-14T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:01:15","slug":"capacity-and-production-statistics-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Capacity and production statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr Iain Staffell, Professor Richard Green, Professor Tim Green and Dr Malte Jansen&nbsp;&#8211; Imperial College London&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain\u2019s most productive nuclear reactor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-somerset-62339183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hinkley Point B, retired in August<\/a>.&nbsp; It operated for 46 years, generating 311 TWh over its lifetime (enough to power the whole of Britain for a year).&nbsp; This closure cuts the country\u2019s nuclear generation capacity by 10% to just 7.4 GW, as now only five reactors remain. Two of these are scheduled to cease operating in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind, solar and biomass all increased their generation over the last year, together producing 20% more electricity during Q3 than the same quarter last year.&nbsp; Despite this, gas-fired power generation was also up by 20%, and coal generation remained the same.&nbsp; Gas continued to supply more than twice as much electricity as any other source In Q3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Britain\u2019s electricity supply mix in the third quarter of 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-1536x814.png 1536w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6a-2048x1086.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for electricity was slightly lower than in previous years, mirroring the long-term downwards trend, but the shift from imports to exports meant an additional 10 TWh of electricity was generated in Britain over the quarter.&nbsp; As a result, output from British power stations rose to its highest since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installed capacity and electricity produced by each technology<sup> 2 3 <\/sup><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5729\" height=\"2370\" src=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b.png 5729w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b-1536x635.png 1536w, https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Figure-6b-2048x847.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5729px) 100vw, 5729px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>[2]<\/sup> Other sources give different values because of the types of plant they consider.&nbsp; For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/energy-trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BEIS Energy Trends<\/a> records an additional 0.7 GW of hydro, 0.6 GW of biomass and 3 GW of waste-to-energy plants.&nbsp; These plants and their output are not visible to the electricity transmission system and so cannot be reported on here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>[3]<\/sup> We include an estimate of the installed capacity of smaller storage devices which are not monitored by the electricity market operator.&nbsp; Britain\u2019s storage capacity is made up of 2.9 GW of pumped hydro storage, 0.6 GW of lithium-ion batteries, 0.4 GW of flywheels and 0.3 GW of compressed air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind, solar and biomass all increased their generation over the last year, together producing 20% more electricity during Q3 than the same quarter last year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","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\/1789","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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}