Around a quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions in the UK are from electricity production - it's one the largest sources of climate change causing CO2 next to transport and industry. On this site we aim to track the continued decarbonisation of UK electrical power generation.
We're on Twitter at @uk_electricity.
Built by Jason Cartwright.
Refreshed power plant database
Data failed from an API for almost 3hrs this morning
Refreshed power plant database
Solar API moved, we stopped recording data for couple of hours
Failed to collect data for 5hrs
Solar API had some problems
An API went down for 3hrs returning no or erroneous data
Solar API had some problems
Added Nemo Link
Solar data API failed for half an hour
Site now contains production data since May 2011. Example: worst coal day recorded
API failed between 1am and 5am
Very slightly improved biomass carbon intensity calculation
API failures, again
Main API failed to update for 4hrs 10min overnight
Solar data failed for a few hours this morning
API that we consume didn't send any new data for 3-4hrs this morning
Added regional data
An API went down, causing all of our data to stop recording
Everything broke and stopped recording data for 11hrs
Added solar data