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Scotland
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North Wales & Merseyside
South Wales
West Midlands
East Midlands
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South East England
Sources
All Source Types
Renewables
Low Carbon
Fossil Fuels
Interconnects
All Sources
Biomass
CCGT (Gas)
Coal
Hydroelectric
Nuclear
OCGT (Gas)
Pumped Storage
Solar
Wind
Plants
About
Dec. 5, 2019
at 8:40 a.m. GMT
Total Production
42.15 GW
High
Carbon Intensity
258 gCO
2
/kWh
Moderate
Renewables
30.4%
Low Carbon
20.7%
Fossil Fuels
49.0%
Biomass
3,130 MW
7.4%
CCGT
18,049 MW
42.8%
Coal
2,592 MW
6.1%
Hydroelectric
449 MW
1.1%
Interconnects
805 MW
1.9%
Nuclear
7,470 MW
17.7%
OCGT
1 MW
0.0%
Oil
0 MW
0.0%
Other
167 MW
0.4%
Pumped Storage
438 MW
1.0%
Solar
47 MW
0.1%
Wind
9,003 MW
21.4%
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