Solar record?

[chris_n]

Haven't been able to find a thread on this but Iamkate is currently showing 10.55GW which is 35.8% of current generation. Don't know if this is a record?
Edit 10.79GW & 37%

[nowty]

18th March 2025 still beats it at 12.2GW, it was especially cool and windy that day, although NESO is still showing the record at 10.971GW on 20th April 2024 as the official record. But they sometimes are a bit slow in updating records.

Looking like 11+ GW will be todays peak, they sometimes upgrade it later when they have all their benchmarking data.
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/

[Oliver90owner]

A single half-hour record does not really have any weight, regarding the percentage of anything. Spot readings do not apply to even a few hours, let alone the whole day.

Good for new records, but minor record increments will always be welcome. Minor increases will eventually result in meaningful renewables increases. What we really need is simply more renewables - from whatever source it might be (but maybe not from burning wood).

[dan_b]

It's still nice to have easy to understand numbers like "peak solar record" though as it gives an overall indication of the scale of where solar is going - which is continuing year on year - as if nothing else its a counter to the "solar doesn't work in the UK" argument that still gets made.

UK solar deployment hit 18GW of total installed capacity in Feb 2025 - so the country has added about 1GW in the last 12months.

What's also interesting is how much more kWh people are generating in March 2025 vs 2024 or before - on our system it's an increase from some 600kWh in 2023 and 2024, to well over 950kWh in 2025 - crazy sun for March.

[chris_n]

It's still nice to have easy to understand numbers like "peak solar record" though as it gives an overall indication of the scale of where solar is going - which is continuing year on year - as if nothing else its a counter to the "solar doesn't work in the UK" argument that still gets made.

UK solar deployment hit 18GW of total installed capacity in Feb 2025 - so the country has added about 1GW in the last 12months.

What's also interesting is how much more kWh people are generating in March 2025 vs 2024 or before - on our system it's an increase from some 600kWh in 2023 and 2024, to well over 950kWh in 2025 - crazy sun for March.

I'm way higher (30%ish) than the last couple of years but not quite as high as 2022(-5%).

[GarethC]

I just received notifcation from NESO of a new solar record today of 12.2GW.

[nowty]

Another 12.2GW day again and this time the NESO agrees with a new solar record,
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/

And its not an April Fool.