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Gas sets the GB price most hours and captures above baseload, running hardest when wind is low and prices high. It also earns from the Balancing Mechanism.
| Year | Output | Baseload | Capture | Rate | Neg. hours | Sold in neg. hours | Delivered capture | Turned up | BM offers | BM bids |
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From 2022, capture is on the position sold day-ahead: metered output less what NESO turned up. Turned up is its share of that; earlier years use metered output.
How this index is calculated, every assumption and what is left out: Methodology → Solar, wind and gas indices · data as JSON at /api/v1/indices/gas