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I've updated the website with the latest house price data for England and Wales. The annual change figure is the lowest it's been since June 2022, which can be attributed to the change in the stamp duty rates in March 2025, which caused a spike in prices before it came into effect and have now dropped out of the current year's calculation. In fact the same can be said for the low point of June 2022, which was a year after the end of the Covid Stamp Duty holiday

Yesterday the UK managed to max out at over 15GW of electricity generated by solar power.

This was a day after the solar record had been set. That day was also windy and for a period we were only generating 0.4GW of electricity from fossil fuels, a new low and also a record low percentage of 1.2%

It would be nice to think it's our current government's positive attitude towards renewables that is helping us break these records, but in reality most of the infrastructure currently powering these records was started several years ago

Since I've had quite a few requests for it, I've updated the postcode data on the website to include the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2025 dataset for England.  

The latest house price data for England and Wales is now on the site. House prices are now falling on an annual basis, although they are still basically flat. The number of sales continues to be on the low side

Two days ago we broke the record for the amount of solar generated in a half hour period, managing 14.1GW. I'm not sure what new capacity has been added since last summer but I'm guessing a reasonable amount given how early in the summer we've managed to break the record from last year.

Then the following day, we produced the least amount of our electricity using fossil fuels in a half hour period, with just 0.85GW coming from gas. One day very soon the whole grid will be running on low carbon power for a short period of time. 

Update - The problem with reporting this data so soon after the event is that it sometimes gets updated afterwards. The data for the 7th of April was adjusted and the record for solar was broken yet again, reaching 14.4GW at lunchtime. 

On the 25th of March, we experienced a consistently windy day. Not only that, we had a decent amount of sunshine. This combination led to some records being broken. We managed to run the grid for half an hour with only 2.1% coming from fossil fuels. The average fossil fuel usage for the day was also a record at 6.3%. We are hopefully very close to running the grid entirely on clean energy when conditions are favourable. We also smashed the record for low carbon production, hitting a maximum of nearly 40GW and averaging 30.8GW over the day. Finally, we also generated the most power from wind in a half hour period, hitting 23.88GW.

Also of note is the difference in the price of electricity between the day (when renewables were dominating) where prices were less than £20/MWh and the evening (when more gas generation was needed) and prices shot up to over £120/MWh

Apologies for the late update, something is happening with the ONS website that meant I couldn't find the latest release using my usual search. I did eventually find it when looking for something else.

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People have asked about the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) statistics. These haven't been updated in this release. I will now investigate including this data from the original sources.

If you spot any problems, let me know

I've uploaded the latest house price data to the website. On an annualised basis, prices are basically flat across the country, with low sales volumes

I've uploaded the latest property sales data from the Land Registry. Not much changes, a low number of sales with prices still increasing on annual basis but drifting lower every month. The annual change chart over the last few years looks like a patient having a cardiac arrest as each change to Stamp Duty drives prices up or down

The latest property sales data is up on the site. It's a continuation of previous months with low sales volumes and flat lining prices