Sources

Reports power generation connected to the national transmission network, interconnector imports and exports, and wholesale pricing.

Used for: generation by fuel type, interconnector flows, pumped storage, market price.

Licence requirement: Elexon's licence requires the following statement: Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026.

Estimates power generation from embedded solar and wind - generation connected to the local distribution network rather than the national transmission network, which Elexon does not directly measure.

Used for: embedded solar and wind estimates, demand.

A project by the National Energy System Operator and the University Of Oxford Department Of Computer Science, estimating the carbon intensity of electricity generation in grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour.

Used for: emissions figures and historical carbon-intensity charts.

The project-by-project register of generation contracted to connect to Great Britain's transmission system - name, connection site, capacity, status, technology, and expected connection date.

Used for: context and citation on the 2030 GB plans page's grid connection queue section. Not wired into the live pipeline - it is a reference link, not a polled data source.

Live demand, generation, wind, GB interconnection and carbon intensity for the island of Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland together), published under EirGrid's Open Data Licence. Public and keyless.

Used for: Ireland's status-strip stats and their 3-hour sparklines.

Attribution required by the licence: "Supported by EirGrid Group Data" - included in the Ireland page's footer.

EirGrid's Northern Ireland transmission system operator counterpart - jointly manages the Single Electricity Market (SEM) with EirGrid. Northern Ireland's contribution is already folded into the all-island EirGrid figures above rather than fetched separately.

Used for: covered via the all-island EirGrid feed.

The Single Electricity Market Operator publishes wholesale day-ahead and intraday market pricing for the island of Ireland through its Website Report API. It is public and keyless, but the exact report identifier for day-ahead index prices is not confirmed yet.

Used for: nothing directly - the same SEM day-ahead price is also published via ENTSO-E (see the Europe section below), which is what the Ireland page's SEM price stat now actually uses.

The US Energy Information Administration's own free API, including the Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (EIA-930) - the closest thing to a single national demand/generation figure, summing the lower-48 states' balancing authorities. Does not cover Alaska, Hawaii or US territories (they are outside EIA-930's balancing-authority coverage), and does not publish price or emissions data at all.

Used for: the USA page's demand, generation, total interchange, generation mix, 24-hour mix chart and History section. Requires the site operator's own free API key (see includes/config.php.example) - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.

An open-source project (plus a hosted API with a free tier) that normalises near-real-time data from CAISO, ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO and ISO-NE into one schema. Closer to real-time than the EIA, but covers specific regions rather than one national number.

Used for: nothing - not used by this site. Showing seven-plus regional figures instead of one lower-48 total is not a trade-off this page makes; the USA page sticks to the single EIA source above by design.

CAISO's OASIS, ERCOT, PJM's Data Miner 2, NYISO and ISO-NE each publish their own free feeds directly - each with a different format, granularity and registration process, which is exactly the fragmentation gridstatus.io exists to paper over.

Used for: nothing - same reasoning as gridstatus.io above, see the USA page's own data sources section for the full picture.

The pan-European grid data hub - every TSO connected to the Continental Europe or Nordic synchronous areas is required by EU regulation to publish here. Covers actual total load (demand), actual generation per fuel type, and day-ahead price, per bidding zone.

Used for: all eleven European country pages' demand, generation, price, mix, 24-hour mix chart and History, plus Ireland's SEM price and generation-mix gap-fill (see the Ireland section above). Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration-plus-email process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure on every page above if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.

Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator publishes real-time demand and hourly generation-by-fuel-type reports. Public and keyless.

Used for: the Canada page's demand, generation mix and History section (Ontario only). No price, emissions or interprovincial transfer figures - IESO's pricing is set through a complex multi-mechanism structure this install does not parse, and it does not publish an emissions figure at all. Only the "most recent" report aliases are polled, so History for this page builds up gradually over time rather than starting with years of backlog like the GB pages.

Formerly OpenNEM - a free, well-documented REST API covering AEMO's National Electricity Market: 5-minute generation by facility/fuel technology, regional spot price and regional demand. Requires a free account and API key.

Used for: the Australia page's demand, spot price, generation mix, 24-hour mix chart and History section. Requires the site operator's own free API key (see includes/config.php.example) - shows no live data until one is set and ingestion has run. Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use, with attribution) - stricter than every other source on this site, all of which are free for any use, including commercial. See About for the full disclosure.

The EU statistics office. Table nrg_bal_peh gives gross electricity production by fuel, per country and year. It covers whole countries, so Norway, Sweden and Denmark are the whole country, not just the price zone on the live page. Ireland is the Republic of Ireland only.

Used for: the long-term history on the European country pages and Ireland. Format and totals checked against the live API on 1 November 2026. See Eurostat's copyright and reuse policy.

Great Britain's generation mix every half hour since 2009, from the National Energy System Operator. The site adds it up into yearly totals. Imports are left out.

Used for: the long-term history on the Great Britain home page. Column names and yearly totals checked on 1 November 2026.

Yearly US generation by fuel, all sectors, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Used for: the long-term history on the USA page. Not shown yet: the figures still need checking against EIA's own published totals.

One XML report per year, with Ontario's hourly output by fuel. The site adds up each year, one file per run. The current year's file is the year so far.

Used for: the long-term history on the Canada (Ontario) page. File names and format checked on 1 November 2026.

Yearly energy by fuel for the National Electricity Market (not Western Australia).

Used for: the long-term history on the Australia page. Not shown yet: the figures still need checking against Open Electricity's own published totals.

Measured electricity across each border, in each direction. The site fetches one border per scheduler run, so each border updates every few hours.

Used for: the cross-border flow cards and net imports on the European country pages. Great Britain's cards use Elexon's interconnector figures, and Ireland's use EirGrid's.