The North and South grid areas referred to throughout this website do not follow current political constituency boundaries or most peoples' concept of what is North and South. In the world of electricity grids, there is no Central Belt. Scotland's largest cities are contained within the South Scotland grid area; so is Fife.
The map below shows the dividing line running West to East above the Central Belt. It then heads North-East to skirt around Loch Leven and encapsulate Fife. Eagle eyed readers who zoom in on the map will notice that a small portion of North East England is also in the South Scotland grid area. The area covers Berwick-upon-Tweed and extends as far as Holy Island (Lindisfarne), over 20kms to the south.
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Grid Area
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2025 gCO2 / kWh
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Change
from 2024 (%) |
2024 gCO2 / kWh
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Change
from 2023 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Scotland | 27.5% | 17.4% | ||
| North East England | 20% |
40.7%
In 2023 NE England had a record breaking annual average carbon intensity of only 15.1 grammes. Although it looks like NE England did 40% worse than the year before we're only talking about a few grammes. |
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| North Scotland | 33.5% | 14.8% | ||
| North West England | 8.5% | 9.9% | ||
| North Wales & Merseyside | 4.2% | 1.8% | ||
| East England | 4% | 32% | ||
| West Midlands | 4.2% | 20.3% | ||
| London | 10.7% | 23.5% | ||
| Yorkshire | 1% | 18.4% | ||
| South East England | 14.3% | 22.2% | ||
| South England | 1.8% | 12.1% | ||
| East Midlands | 4.1% | 22.1% | ||
| South West England | 9.3% | 4.4% | ||
| South Wales | 2% | 8.6% |