We unveil the international league table for low carbon electricity in Article 1<\/a>, which charts the carbon intensity of electricity production across 33 countries. In the last four years, Britain National Grid released the world\u2019s first grid carbon forecast: predicting the cleanest times to use electricity over the coming 48 hours. Article 2<\/a> looks at how this could underpin new services that enable people and businesses to shift when they consume electricity and lower their carbon emissions by up to 25%. Authors:<\/em> Dr Iain Staffell<\/a>, Professor Richard Green<\/a>, Dr Rob Gross<\/a> and Professor Tim Green<\/a>Professor Tim Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This quarter\u2019s issue looks at how Britain\u2019s power system decarbonisation compares globally, and how it can be taken further. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q3-2017"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
has jumped 13 places to have the 7th cleanest major power system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Article 3<\/a> charts the growing importance of imports: 9% of Britain\u2019s electricity was generated overseas during July and August. But as we import electricity, we export emissions. Britain\u2019s power system has decarbonised to the point that imports now raise the average carbon content of our electricity. Article 4<\/a> follows on by looking at the future of Britain\u2019s interconnectors, and the regulatory uncertainty they face from exiting the European Union.
The last three months were relatively quiet for the power system after several records were broken in Quarter 2. The generation mix was unchanged, and coal output remained at historic lows (see Article 5)<\/a>. Low-carbon sources edged upwards slightly to 55% of the mix despite wind and solar output being down on last quarter (due to the weather), and a week of zero output from transmissionconnected biomass plants in September (due to maintenance). Prices were uneventful, with no spikes above \u00a3200\/MWh, and only 13 hours with zero or negative prices. Article 6<\/a> rounds up the statistics for the quarter.
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