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Postcode level electricity statistics
DESNZ
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Cost
- Free
- Account needed
- No
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
Mean and median domestic electricity consumption and meter counts per postcode unit. The finest-grained open energy consumption data in GB.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Annual energy consumption
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Great Britain
- Nations
- England, Scotland, Wales
- Resolution
- Postcode unit (~15 addresses)
- Formats
- CSV (large, zipped by region)
- Update cadence
- Annual, series runs 2015-2024
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Assertion source
- as published by DESNZ
- Protocol
- GOV.UK Content API -> zipped CSV
- Endpoint
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/postcode-level-electricity-statistics-2024
- Harvest note
- yes-automated
Caveats
MAJOR FIND - previous pass recorded only LA-level. Disclosure control suppresses postcodes with <5 meters, so rural/sparse areas are blank. Domestic only.
Classification
- Category
- Demand & Heat Users
- Sub-category
- 2.6 Electricity & power demand
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Tabular
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- postcode-level-electricity-statistics
Open at DESNZ
Openly licensed. No account needed.
Resolved
A server answered on 2026-09-08 and returned the expected page.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
Machine endpoint (CSV (large, zipped by…)
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