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Reports 2025 GB Electricity Market Summary

2025 GB Electricity Market Summary

Understand the trends, changes and pricing shifts which shaped GB's power market in 2025.

Key insights include:

GB fuel mix:

  • Renewables: 14.52GW (1.03GW increase)

  • Nuclear: 34.23 (4GW decrease)

  • Coal: 0 GW for the first time as all coal generation is decommissioned

  • Gas: 8.83GW (0.54GW increase)

Power imports:

  • Average hourly power imports: 3.3GW (0.5GW decrease)

  • Most power imports sourced from France (~2.5GW) and Norway (~1.0GW)

New record for wind:

  • Average hourly wind power generation hits 9.82GW, nearly a three-fold increase in 10 years

Average wholesale price changes:

  • Early-year spikes were enough to lift the annual average gas price to around GBP 30/MWh, up slightly from GBP 28.63/MWh in 2024.

  • Average wholesale electricity prices rose to GBP 80.63/MWh, over GBP 8/MWh higher than in 2024, with 10 more negative-price hours year-on-year.

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