Most live grid dashboards show how clean the power is. This one shows whether you can rely on it: how much of Great Britain's electricity comes from firm, dispatchable plant — and how much relies on weather and imports that go quiet together. Every figure traces to Elexon, NESO and DUKES; nothing is modelled.
01 · Reliability
Reliable, dispatchable power — gas, nuclear and biomass, there whatever the weather — against wind, solar and imports, the sources that fall away together when a blocking high becalms the whole of north-west Europe. Read live from Elexon's generation snapshot.
Reading the live grid…
02 · Installed Capacity vs delivered
Total installed wind and solar capacity, against what the whole fleet is actually delivering this minute.
03 · Imports
Net imports right now, interruptible at will, as a share of the cables' full capacity, against the rolling-year record — the same capacity-factor reading as wind and solar above. What those imports cost is on the import detail page. Going further: Anatomy of a price spike — Britain's costliest import day, played back half-hour by half-hour.
Reading the import record…