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Dashboard display of British mainland generation at 2pm on 30th Mar. Sources of generation are divided into fossil fuels, renewables and 'other' (which also includes 'biomass'. At this time suppliers are producing 29.7GW (103.3% of demand). The excess is going to neighbouring countries. Solar was 10.75GW. Wind was 12.49GW. Hydro was 0.34GW. Gas was 1.98GW. Nuclear was 3.76GW. Biomass was 0.34GW.

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Dashboard display of British mainland generation at 2pm on 30th Mar. Sources of generation are divided into fossil fuels, renewables and 'other' (which also includes 'biomass'. At this time suppliers are producing 29.7GW (103.3% of demand). The excess is going to neighbouring countries. Solar was 10.75GW. Wind was 12.49GW. Hydro was 0.34GW. Gas was 1.98GW. Nuclear was 3.76GW. Biomass was 0.34GW.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 00:47:08 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

Britain is getting SO close to generating electricity without fossil fuels today -- in fact gas went down to just 1.6 GW this morning whilst I was enjoying an 80 mile round trip to Chester on electricity costing MINUS 50 pence. I suspect wind is getting constrained (paid to turn down its output) as the system managers aren't yet ready to let the system run on just wind, solar, hydro and a bit of nuclear. https://grid.iamkate.com

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