UK Carbon Intensity Today
A durable landing page for today’s electricity carbon intensity in Great Britain, linking the live emissions signal to renewables, gas and demand.
Latest static snapshot: carbon intensity 114 gCO₂/kWh, renewable share 63%, gas share 25% and demand 24.8 GW.
Latest GB electricity snapshot
Snapshot timestamp: 2026-06-08 11:30:00 UTC. Source freshness: Elexon FUELINST/BMRS + ESO + PV Live (live).
- Demand: 24.8 GW
- Visible generation: 28.2 GW
- Carbon intensity: 114 gCO₂/kWh (moderate)
- Renewable share: 63%
- Gas share: 25%
- Wind: 7.8 GW
- Solar: 7.9 GW
- Nuclear: 3.0 GW
- Imports/exports: 7.0 GW net imports
These values are a cached build-time snapshot for crawlers and non-JavaScript readers. The live dashboard refreshes in the browser from public grid and carbon-intensity sources.
Electricity carbon intensity estimates the grams of CO2-equivalent emitted for each kilowatt-hour consumed. Lower values usually appear when wind, solar, nuclear and other low-carbon sources make up more of the mix.
For flexible electricity use, the cleanest opportunities are likely to appear when wind is strong, gas is low and demand is not at a peak. This is the foundation for future EV-charging guidance, clean-electricity alerts and weekly newsletter summaries.
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