Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
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HN comment orderI'm on a electricity tariff where the per kWh unit price changes every 30 minutes, you're basically being charged at market rate or thereabouts, the prices for the next 28 hours are announced at 4pm every day. Generally the prices betwen 4pm-7pm are expensive and the rest of the time it's cheaper - although with current world events things have gotten a little spicy lately. On really windy days you definitely get to see the benefit where prices drop to…
VikingLink turns up Dec 29, which will bring 800MW of clean wind energy to the UK from Denmark until transmission work in Denmark allows for the full 1.4GW link capacity to be utilized. https://www.offshore-energy.biz/viking-link-worlds-largest-i... https://www.viking-link.com/
Any way to do this for the part of National Grid that operates in New York and Massachusetts?
This is a repeat url, but ever more helpful to remind us UK does not 'depend' on natural gas, albeit wholesale prices are apparently still set by the price of it
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-02 | UK National Grid: Live Status | clort | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-27 | National Grid: Live Status | vijayr02 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022-07-25 | UK National Grid: Live status of the electricity transmission network | open-source-ux | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-21 | New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMTFirst breakout | scrlk | 140 | 166 |
| 2026-03-19 | Majority of UK power in the last week was wind | gregorvand | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-03-26 | National Grid: Live | imichael | 15 | 1 |
| 2026-03-28 | Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewablesHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | rwmj | 415 | 299 |