Demand
— GWInitial national outturn · INDO
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Renewable share
— %Wind, hydro and biomass
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Interval not yet completeNet transfers
— GWUnavailable · imports − exports
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Great Britain— GWNear-live · FUELINST
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Coverage & definitions
Transmission-metered domestic generation excludes embedded estimates, pumped storage and imports. Other may include batteries. Renewable share includes wind, natural hydro and biomass, not nuclear; biomass is not zero-emission.
Demand and carbon use separate intervals. Five-minute snapshots are not half-hour averages. Methods and source definitions
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WHAT CHANGED / EVIDENCE FIRST
What changed?
Comparable completed half-hours are unavailable. Missing readings are not converted into trends.
Forecast network context
No time-valid day-ahead boundary periods are available in the cached source. This is a separate forecast window, not measured congestion or an explanation of the earlier generation changes.
Unused capacity, a forecast exceedance, or a schedule/output difference is not a curtailment estimate.
Beyond the mix
Market and storage
Wholesale index— /MWhNot your retail tariffTime unverifiedPumped storage— GWReading unavailableTime unverifiedCarbon outlook
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Forecast evidence
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Historical measured generation has different embedded-source coverage from the live mix. Gaps and incomplete periods are not observations.
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Generation, changing renewables and gas, with the limits of the evidence in view.
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Scope: Great Britain, excluding Northern Ireland. Demand is initial national demand outturn (INDO), with the source’s transmission-system boundary. Biomass is included in renewable share; storage is excluded. Individual inputs can cover different intervals.
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