Great Britain Power Generation Mix with Carbon Intensity, 2009 to Present

15+ years of half-hourly electricity generation data tracks the evolving energy mix in Great Britain. This time series likely contains generation by source and associated carbon intensity trends. The dataset originates from Kaggle, but specific authorship and update frequency are unknown.

Use Cases

• Forecasting electricity demand and supply based on half-hourly generation time series.
• Modeling carbon emissions from the power sector based on described carbon intensity trends.
• Analyzing the historical transition of energy sources (e.g., fossil fuels to renewables) over the 15+ year period.
• Benchmarking grid performance and stability using the long-term, granular temporal data.

Strengths

• Covers 15+ years of historical data, providing a long-term view of energy transitions.
• Half-hourly temporal resolution offers detailed insights into intraday generation patterns.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Kaggle

Collection Method

null

Time Range

2009 to present

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Great Britain