About Global Grid

Global Grid is a free website that shows how the world makes its electricity: live figures where grid operators publish them, yearly figures for 214 countries and territories, oil, gas and fuel prices, an energy security score for every country, and moving maps of how oil, gas and electricity travel.

What you can see

• Live grids. Great Britain every 5 minutes and the United States every hour: what is generating, how much power is moving through cables to neighbouring countries, the wholesale price (Great Britain) and how much carbon dioxide each kilowatt hour produces.
• Every country. The energy mix, carbon intensity, imports and exports for each year since 2000, with a written summary for each country.
• Markets. Daily oil, gas and fuel prices, and monthly world gas and coal prices, all in US dollars; and strategic oil reserves: the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve week by week, a map of where the reserves are, who holds the most, how full they are, and Europe's emergency oil stocks month by month.
• World. How the world's electricity has changed since 2000, by region and by energy source, with a page for each source.
• Energy security. A score out of 100 for every country. How the score works.
• Pipelines. The oil and gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals tracked by Global Energy Monitor, on a map you can zoom into, from operating to proposed, with a written summary; and the world's high-voltage power lines, undersea power cables and substations, as mapped in OpenStreetMap, each with its own on/off button.
• Flows. How oil, gas and electricity move around the world: oil and gas tankers sailing between real ports, with where the oil through each shipping chokepoint comes from and where it goes, year by year since 2020; liquefied natural gas exports, imports and every LNG terminal; the world's oil and gas fields and new discoveries; oil and gas pipelines; Great Britain's and the United States' power cables, live; and 25 years of the world's electricity.
• News. Global Grid Weekly, a short briefing written every Monday from the site's own figures (also by email, if you ask for it), Great Britain's all-time electricity records and what's new on the site.

Where the numbers come from

• Great Britain's generation, interconnectors and wholesale price: Elexon. Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026.
• Great Britain's rooftop solar and small wind farm estimates, and carbon intensity: the National Energy System Operator (NESO) and its Carbon Intensity service.
• Great Britain's all-time records on the News tab: NESO's historic generation mix (NESO Open Data Licence), checked monthly. Supported by National Energy SO Open Data.
• Great Britain's power stations: Elexon's Balancing Mechanism data (accepted bids and offers, and physical notifications), as above.
• Live electricity in 15 European countries, and the flows across Europe's borders (including with Morocco and Turkey): the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
• Ontario's live electricity and its interconnections: the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).
• Australia's live electricity, prices and power stations (its eastern and southern states): the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
• United States electricity, oil, gas and fuel prices: the US Energy Information Administration.
• Yearly electricity figures for every country: Ember (CC BY 4.0).
• Energy production for the security score: the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, via Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
• World gas and coal prices: the International Monetary Fund, via FRED. Exchange rates: the European Central Bank and FRED.
• High-voltage power lines, undersea power cables and substations on the Pipelines map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence (the file the map reads, built from OpenStreetMap, is shared under the same licence).
• Strategic oil reserves: the US Energy Information Administration (the US reserve every week, its forecast, and its estimates for the countries holding the most), the US Department of Energy (the reserve's sites), Eurostat (Europe's emergency oil stocks), the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (Japan's national stockpiling bases) and Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (India's sites).
• Oil passing the world's shipping chokepoints, and the share of liquefied natural gas shipped by the largest exporters: the US Energy Information Administration. Pipeline capacities: the operators, official bodies and news reports named beside each pipeline on the Flows tab, which also says where no reliable figure exists. Tanker routes and pipeline paths are simplified.
• Oil and gas pipelines and LNG terminals: Global Energy Monitor's Global Oil Infrastructure Tracker and Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker (CC BY 4.0), checked for new releases every month.
• Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). The pipelines map is drawn with MapLibre.

Live figures are collected every 20 minutes. If a source stops publishing, the site keeps showing its last good figures, with their times, and shows "n/a" rather than guessing. Some figures are estimates or first releases that the source may revise.

The live view was inspired by Kate Morley's National Grid: Live, which showed how clearly Great Britain's grid data can be presented.

Who runs it

Global Grid is an independent site. It is not connected with any grid operator, government or energy company. It is free to use; an optional Pro plan on the Subscribe tab adds forecasts, alerts, longer price histories and data downloads. To ask a question or report a mistake, email GlobalGrid365@gmail.com.