GridCarbon

Track the carbon intensity of the GB electricity grid on your smartphone or tablet.

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In 2009 a carbon intensity of 336gCO2/kWh was worthy of colouring the map green. It would now be coloured red.

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Farewell Ratcliffe-on-Soar.

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When GridCarbon launched in 2009 coal generation regularly reached 25GW at peak times.

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@johnoft @NationalGridESO @myGridGB Some problem with data from ELEXON.

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Android and iOS updates to support the new Viking Link interconnector with Denmark are rolling out this week.

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@GavinJBeattie @Mark06550489 Not yet. Should be an update in a week or so to include it.

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@stevefry @JonathanWaxman1 See Staffell, 2017 for the full discussion. This starts from the carbon intensity of burning wood and tries to put a value on the subsequent reduction due to regrowth of the source. https://t.co/c2shGHQ1L0

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@VisctFishpond The full list is here - https://t.co/A6GdDF2Yem

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@VisctFishpond They are hard to track down but seem to be things like battery storage sites and sometimes waste-to-energy sites. They are all metered and registered as balancing mechanism units. https://t.co/9QGPcf6tXJ

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@quasirob @davidrvetter The values are described in this paper - https://t.co/0iYGk6z5VX

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@wsvine @ukedgemk ELEXON is back up.

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@wsvine @ukedgemk You probably have the most up to date version now, but the ELEXON site went down for maintenance today around 18:00. Should be back up later today.

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Yesterday's solar peak of 9168 MW was the highest since April 2021. Still behind the all-time peak of 9872 MW on 24th June 2020.

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@GoingElectricUK @NationalGridESO They all use slightly different data sources and baseline carbon intensity values for different fuel sources. Our methodology is described here. https://t.co/0iYGk6zDLv

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@rarts Yep, we recalculate the carbon intensity using the 'official' 30-minute fuel mix values that are published at the end of each day. The app uses 5-minute data with extrapolated solar data (the solar API can have a lag of up to an hour) so the numbers differ a little sometimes.

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Yesterday matched the lowest 2023 carbon intensity value of 46 gCO2/kWh. Just higher than the all-time record in 2021 of 43 gCO2/kWh.

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@okSettleDown @davidrvetter Yes.