NESO live dashboard

Last rebuilt 12 Sep 2026, 16:36 UTC
Carbon intensity
134 gCO₂/kWh
latest HH · 05 Sep 21:00
Low-carbon share
45.6%
nuclear + renewables + low-C imports
ND last outturn
20,012 MW
SP 17 · 12 Sep
Group 1

System load

National & transmission demand, embedded renewables, interconnector flows · last 14 days.

National & Transmission System Demand

Actuals only · half-hourly.

Embedded wind & solar output

Actuals + 7-day forecast · half-hourly.

Interconnector flows (stacked)

Signed MW · + = import to GB.

Group 2

Generation mix

Fuel-level mix and carbon intensity · last 7 days.

Fuel-level generation mix

All sources stacked · half-hourly.

Carbon intensity & low-carbon share

gCO₂/kWh (left) and low-carbon % (right).

Group 3

Ancillary services — requirements

Response (DC, DM, DR, SFFR) and Reserve (QR, SR, BR) forecasts. National only — these services are not zonally split.

Response-service requirement over time

DC / DM / DR / SFFR · MW per 4-hour EFA block · rolling window of last 4 days + next 7. Click legend entries to hide/show individual services.

Reserve services · positive & negative requirements

QR / SR / BR · solid = positive, dotted = negative.

12-month DX requirement (probabilistic)

Mean ± P10/P90 from the latest forecast vintage.

SFFR — daily requirement vs cleared

Sum across EFA blocks · accepted bids only · last 90 days.

Group 4

Procurement (EAC · by unit)

Cleared response/reserve volumes from the EAC platform — pivoted by technology, service, geography and participant. Last 30 days.

Cleared MW by technology

Sum of cleared volumes per delivery day.

Cleared MW by service type

Same data, pivoted by service.

Provider sites · postcode map

Bubble per site · size = total cleared MW. Use the Service buttons to isolate a single service, or the Tech buttons to isolate one technology type. Click "All" to reset.

Top 20 participants

League table by cleared MW (last 30 days).

Group 5

Demand Flexibility Service

Regional delivery footprint across the 14 DNO licence areas.

Delivered MW by DNO region · last 12 months

Aggregated across every DFS event in the window. Ordered roughly north-to-south; colour intensity tracks MW.

Group 6

Historical trends

Longer-horizon views alongside the near-live panels above. Sourced from NESO's Historic Demand Data and the Historic generation-mix / carbon-intensity dataset.

Historic national demand · monthly peak & mean

Rolling three-year window (previous, current, and YTD). Peak line tracks each month's maximum settlement-period National Demand; mean line is the flat average across all periods.

Generation mix · monthly share by fuel

Half-hourly generation aggregated to monthly means, normalised to percentage of total GB generation. The gradient over time shows the coal → gas → renewables transition.

Carbon intensity · monthly mean

Monthly-mean CI in gCO₂/kWh (left axis) with the low-carbon share % overlaid (right axis). Clear seasonality: winter CI lifts as gas fills for less wind and solar.

Demand Flexibility Service · monthly delivered MW

Total MW delivered per month across all DFS events. Volumes are driven by winter tightness and by NESO's willingness to call DFS in preference to more expensive balancing actions.

Response procurement (EAC) · monthly cleared MW

Total cleared MW·SP for the Response service family across all units, summed by delivery month. Data window follows NESO's Enduring Auction Capability publication window (currently ~6 months).

Reserve procurement (EAC) · monthly cleared MW by service

Same source as above, split by service: Balancing Reserve (day-ahead), Quick Reserve and Slow Reserve. Stack lets you eyeball where NESO's marginal reserve MW is landing as the mix evolves.

Source: NESO Data Portal · postcode geocoding via postcodes.io · built static at 12 Sep 2026, 16:36 UTC.