Great Britain’s Monthly Energy Stats

On 25 March at 1:30pm, Great Britain achieved a new maximum Wind generation record of 23,880 MW. At the time, Wind was providing 60% of Great Britain’s electricity, that’s enough electricity to power over 23 million homes.

Across the month, Wind was Great Britain’s largest source of electricity generation, providing 34.8%. Gas came second at 22.2%.

The highest electricity demand was recorded at 38,160 MW on 3 March at 6pm. That’s 5,405 MW lower than February’s peak demand. As the months get warmer and our evenings lighter as we exit winter, we begin to see lower demand across the country.

The largest share of our Gas came from UK and Norwegian gas fields at 74% with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports providing 24% and Storage withdrawal provided the remaining 2%.

Distribution networks transported 65% of our Gas to homes, offices, hospitals etc and power stations received 16%.

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