Low carbon made up statistic record broken

The main reason I set up the UK electricity generation page was to see the progress we are making on the road to a clean grid. One of things I was hoping to see was fossil fuels get pushed off the grid completely for a short period of time. There has been talk of that happening some time this summer, but it hasn't happened yet and the lowest levels for fossil fuel use were over a year ago.

There may well be sound reasons for this but it is somewhat disappointing. So I came up with my own statistic to show we are making progress. Count up the time we are producing more than 30GW of power from low carbon sources, because 30GW is the UK's average electricity demand. I'm only including wind, solar, nuclear and hydropower in this calculation because I'm not a fan of biomass. And in June 2025 we managed to achieve this for 27 hours in total, a new high. This broke the record of 15.5 hours set the previous month. 

If you squint, you can see the UK's clean grid coming over the horizon.