{"id":2329,"date":"2025-03-20T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:22:08","slug":"capacity-and-production-statistics-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"Capacity and production statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After four consecutive quarters of wind being the largest source of electricity, gas took the top spot in the 4th quarter by the slimmest of margins, producing just 0.1% more electricity than wind farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain hit a milestone of 30 GW of installed wind capacity during December. Onshore wind farm developments took off during 2024 after the ban on their construction was lifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas bucked its longer-term decline by increasing output by 15% year-on-year during the 4th quarter. This was driven by lower wind output and higher demand, both caused by cold and calm weather conditions. Demand during the 4th quarter reached a three-year high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise in Britain\u2019s wind capacity over the last 20 years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Installed capacity and electricity produced by each technology. [1, 2]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1] 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

[2] 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":"

After four consecutive quarters of wind being the largest source of electricity, gas took the top spot in the 4th quarter by the slimmest of margins, producing just 0.1% more electricity than wind farms. Britain hit a milestone of 30 GW of installed wind capacity during December. Onshore wind farm developments took off during 2024 after the ban on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[41,48],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q4-2024","tag-electric-insights","tag-q4-2024"],"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