Near-real-time GB electricity demand, market price, carbon intensity and generation mix. Generation mix refreshes every 5 minutes; price and carbon update every half hour at their native cadence. Commodity prices update daily through GridBot.
This tracker uses free public sources. We gratefully acknowledge them:
Generation mix & demand — Elexon BMRS Insights, used under the BMRS Data Licence Terms.
Carbon intensity — National Energy System Operator Carbon Intensity API, developed with the Environmental Defense Fund, University of Oxford and WWF. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Solar generation — Sheffield Solar PV_Live, University of Sheffield.
Commodity prices — Yahoo Finance live chart endpoints and FRED historic oil series. UK pump prices are a best effort public page read and should be treated as indicative only.
Indicative near-real-time values for screening and situational awareness only. No representation is made that the data is accurate or complete.