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GB grid frequency

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Hz

This is the frequency of the British electricity grid, right now. The target is 50 Hz. Nobody is inspecting it — it just varies. Control limits tell you what normal variation looks like, so when something abnormal happens you know immediately, without staring at the number.

What just happened

Written out in full, the moment the chart sees it. No statistics knowledge required.

Tick a rule off and its points, its shaded runs and its card below the chart go with it — nothing is refetched, so you are looking at the same readings judged by fewer rules. Change how often a reading is taken and watch the limits move. Sample too often and every reading is almost a copy of the one before it — the chart then thinks the process is far steadier than it is, and draws limits so tight that normal variation looks like a crisis. Only the setting marked (the real one) shows the limits that were locked at baseline and have never been recalculated since.

Data source: Elexon BMRS. BMRS data provided by Elexon under the BMRS Data Licence Terms. SPC Visuals is not affiliated with Elexon BMRS.

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I-MR control chart of GB grid frequency, drawn from Elexon BMRS. Limits were computed once from the first 96 points and frozen; they are never recalculated from the visible window. How these charts are built →

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