The bank holiday sunshine helped solar PV become the UK’s dominant source of electricity for three hours on Sunday afternoon.

Data compiled by Drax Electricity Insights shows that between 12:15pm and 3:15pm on Sunday, the country’s solar fleet generated more power than any other generation source, including gas.

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During that period solar contributed between 8.4GW and 8.8GW of the country’s total demand. That was equivalent to between 26.7% and 28.5% of demand. Gas meanwhile contributed around one-quarter, with nuclear generating just shy of that figure as well.

Coal however was shunted entirely off the system during the afternoon spell.

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