Meet the fuel types

Eleven real sites, one for each way Great Britain makes, stores or imports electricity today. Hover over a square, tab to it or tap it to meet each station, and click to keep one selected. Switch the scene between day, night and still weather, or turn the map a quarter at a time. For every unit at every large station, see Power stations.

GB Electricity

Meet the fuel types

Eleven real sites, one for each way Great Britain makes, stores or imports electricity today. Hover over a square, tab to it or tap it, and click to keep one selected.

The eleven stations

Live output, the same moment for every site

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Output is expected output for the current settlement period: each unit’s physical notification, capped at its export limit, at one moment for every site. The illustrations are stylised, not survey-accurate. How these figures work →

All eleven stations

The same figures as the map

The eleven stations on the map, with live output and capacity
Station	Type	Where	Output MW	Capacity MW	Now
Sizewell B	Nuclear	Suffolk coast	–	1,287	–
Drax	Biomass	North Yorkshire	–	2,641	–
Severn Power	Gas (CCGT)	Uskmouth, Newport	–	850	–
Hornsea 2	Offshore wind	North Sea, off the Yorkshire coast	–	1,320	–
Whitelee	Onshore wind	Eaglesham Moor, East Renfrewshire	–	515	–
Cleve Hill	Solar + storage	North Kent coast	–	317	–
Pitlochry	Hydro	Perthshire	–	76	–
Dinorwig	Pumped storage	Gwynedd, Snowdonia	–	1,728	–
Thurrock Storage	Battery storage	Thurrock, Essex	–	300	–
North Sea Link	Interconnector (Norway)	Cambois, Northumberland	–	1,400	–
Riverside	Energy from waste	Belvedere, London	–	–	–

Sources: physical notifications and export and import limits are Elexon Insights Solution data for each site’s BM units.