{"id":2234,"date":"2024-09-09T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2024-09-09T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:49:59","slug":"power-system-records-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Power system records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Britain\u2019s solar panels surpassed 10 GW of output for the first time.<\/strong> On 2 June, output hit 10.7 GW, boosted by June being relatively cool but with higher than average sunshine hours<\/a>. The combined output of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 0.89 GW on 5 April, the first time they have produced less than 1 GW in a century. Fossil fuels produced less than one-fifth of electricity during April. Putting these together, the carbon intensity of electricity fell to a record low of 103 g\/kWh averaged over the second quarter, going under 90 g\/kWh in April. The share of all low carbon reached a new peak of 97%, with generation of 39 GW, up from the previous record of 35 GW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tables below look over the past fifteen years, back to 2009, and report the record output and share of electricity generation, plus sustained averages over a day, a month and a calendar year. Cells highlighted in blue are records that were broken in the second quarter of 2024. Each number links to the date it occurred on the Electric Insights<\/a> website, so these records can be explored visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4] Note that Britain has no inter-seasonal electricity storage, so we only report on half-hourly and daily records. Elexon and National Grid only report the output of large pumped hydro storage plants.<\/em> The operation of battery, flywheel and other storage sites is not publicly available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s solar panels surpassed 10 GW of output for the first time. On 2 June, output hit 10.7 GW, boosted by June being relatively cool but with higher than average sunshine hours. The combined output of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 0.89 GW on 5 April, the first time they have produced less than 1 GW in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[41,43],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q2-2024","tag-electric-insights","tag-q2-2024"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t