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Britain's Electricity Explained: 2022 Review
With another year over, the ESO looks back at how electricity was generated and used across 2022, and some of the notable events seen through the year. We’ve seen a number of records broken across the year as various conditions aligned to deliver new firsts in wind generation and total zero carbon generation.

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