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UK Grid is a personal project that pulls together live electricity information from across the UK into one place. It started as an outage map, aggregating fault reports from all seven Distribution Network Operators into a single view, and has grown to include live grid data: generation mix, carbon intensity, interconnector flows, and total demand.
The site is entirely unofficial and has no affiliation with any DNO, Ofgem, NESO, or any other industry body. All data is sourced from publicly available APIs and websites and is presented for personal interest and convenience only.
UK Grid is a collaboration between the author's ideas, domain knowledge, and design direction, and Claude Code, an AI coding assistant made by Anthropic. Every line of code has been written by Claude; every decision about what to build, how it should look, and how it should behave has been the author's.
The project is a good example of what this kind of pairing can produce: a fully functional, publicly accessible web service built iteratively through conversation, without the author writing a single line of code.
Very little, and none of it identifies you. There are no cookies, no tracking scripts and no third-party analytics. Nothing is stored in your browser, there is no account to create, and there is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
The server counts how many times each page is viewed each day, and the domain that sent you here if there was one, such as a search engine. That is the whole of it: daily totals per page. No IP addresses, no browser fingerprints, no record of individual visits. There is deliberately no way to reconstruct any one person's path through the site.
Some parts of the site ask your browser to contact other people's servers, and those servers can see your IP address when it does, exactly as they would on any website:
Neither this site nor its author has any access to whatever those services record. If any of this changes, this page changes with it.