Britain's energy system publishes a colossal amount of data. Most of it sits in PDFs, CSVs, and dashboards that assume you already know what you're looking for. This series turns that raw output into something you can read in two minutes.
One question. One dataset. One chart that earns its place. Every dashboard pulls live from the source — NESO, ENA, Ofgem, the DNOs — so the numbers move when the grid does.
Built for the curious non-specialist as much as the practitioner.
Thirty days of generation mix data. How much of the month was wind-driven, when gas had to step in, and how the carbon intensity curve actually looks day to day.
Constraint payments are now bigger than the entire balancing budget was in 2018. Seven years of cost data, what's actually driving the bill, and where it's heading by 2030.
The largest connections clear-out Britain has ever done. The pre-reform queue, the post-reform pipeline, the technology mix, and how it all maps to the Clean Power 2030 capacity range.
A heatmap of demand by hour-of-day and day-of-week across a year. Where the duck curve is forming, and where the flexibility opportunities are hiding.
Future Energy Scenarios capacity build-out trajectories. The gap between current build rates and the trajectories the grid actually needs.
Britain's six distribution network operators, the 14 areas they serve, and the company that actually owns the wires to your meter. Enter your postcode to find yours, then see how it's performing under RIIO-ED2.
EVs, heat pumps, solar, home batteries. They're connecting to Britain's local electricity network faster than it was designed for. Includes an interactive model — set the mix on a 40-home street and watch the substation load respond in real time.
Live flows across the interconnectors to France, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland. When we import, when we export, and what the direction tells you about the system.
Britain is paying £1.8bn a year to switch wind farms off because there aren't enough cables to carry the power south. The fix exists. The process of getting permission to build it takes a decade. Includes an interactive stage-by-stage breakdown and a calculator to find your personal share of the £1.8bn.
Use of system charges, capacity charges, the TNUoS regional split. The bit of your bill that pays for the wires — and why it varies by where you live and when you use power.
The flagship scorecard. Every Clean Power 2030 capacity target, set against what's been commissioned, what's under construction, and what's still just on paper.
I work in the UK energy sector and spend a lot of my time helping colleagues and clients navigate datasets. Whilst that is confidential, there is a wealth of data in the public domain. This series will bring that publicly available data to life, so you don't have to. Built in the open, designed to be readable in the time it takes to drink half a coffee.
Each post lands on LinkedIn first. The full interactive dashboards live here.