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GridCarbon

@GridCarbon

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

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Joined November 2014
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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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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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Android and iOS updates to support the new Viking Link interconnector with Denmark are rolling out this week.
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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.
Plot showing generation mix of the GB electricity grid on Thursday 20th April 2023.

ALT Plot showing generation mix of the GB electricity grid on Thursday 20th April 2023.

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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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At 2.40pm today, wind and solar are producing 55% of the UK's electricity, with nuclear at almost 16%. Fossil gas is generating just 8.3%, contributing to a carbon intensity of 59 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour. Courtesy of @GridCarbon.
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Cold panels and clear skies. It could be a good day for solar generation. So far, the highest solar generation recorded this year was 8752 MW on the 4th of April. The highest ever was 9872 MW on 24th June 2020.
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Apologies if you missed this tweet. Not sure how it ended up being restricted to GridCarbon’s Twitter Circles.
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An iOS update to address the missing wind data is working its way through the system. More robustly handles missing wind and solar data.
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Look at the grid mix right now 👇 by @GridCarbon #renewables and #european friends dominate the #EnergyTransition
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As I write this, renewables and nuclear are producing 82% of Britain's electricity. This is using the @GridCarbon app.
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Farewell Hinkley Point B.
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We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the 6th International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM 2022) with will be co-located with BuildSys 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on November 9-10, 2022 nilmworkshop.org/2022/
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The updated iOS app is now available on the app store. Update now to restore data access.
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Both the iOS and Android apps require an update to use the new Sheffield Solar API that launched today. These updates will be available on the app stores later this week.
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Quite a lot coal generation last night. High demand and low wind generation.
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Lots of solar today to make up for it though.
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CO2 Modeller is back on the app store after I eventually tracked down the cause of the crash in new versions of iOS. apps.apple.com/gb/app/co2-mo…
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