{"id":2274,"date":"2024-11-28T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:45:40","slug":"capacity-and-production-statistics-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=2274","title":{"rendered":"Capacity and production statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Britain\u2019s generation mix during Quarter 3 was very similar to the previous three months<\/a>.<\/strong> Wind was the largest source, producing just over one-quarter of supply, followed by gas at just under one-quarter. The carbon emissions from electricity production again hovered just above the 100 g\/kWh milestone, averaging 104 g this quarter, versus 103 g last quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas generation fell by one third year-on-year, pushed down by increased imports from abroad, and production from biomass, solar PV and nuclear. Electricity demand was higher than this time last year, for the fourth quarter in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power demand as grown by 1.7% year-on-year, in part because prices have fallen, meaning households and businesses will cut back less on their consumption. Looking at longer-term growth, battery electric vehicles surpassed a 20% share of new car sales<\/a> for the first time in August, and heat pumps have reached record sales<\/a> this year. The growing stock of electric vehicles and heating will reverse the decades-long decline in British electricity demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain\u2019s electricity supply mix<\/em> in the third quarter of 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installed capacity and electricity produced by each technology. [3] [4]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[3] Other sources give different values because of the types of plant they consider. For example, 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.<\/em> These plants and their output are not visible to the electricity transmission system and so cannot be reported on here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4] We include an estimate of the installed capacity of smaller storage devices which are not monitored by the electricity market operator.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s generation mix during Quarter 3 was very similar to the previous three months. Wind was the largest source, producing just over one-quarter of supply, followed by gas at just under one-quarter. The carbon emissions from electricity production again hovered just above the 100 g\/kWh milestone, averaging 104 g this quarter, versus 103 g last quarter. Gas generation fell by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[41,45],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q3-2024","tag-electric-insights","tag-q3-2024"],"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