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Accredited official statistics: Energy trends and prices: March - May 2027

Source
Dept for Energy Security & Net Zero - Activity
Source link
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/energy-trends-and-prices-march-may-2027
Published
2026-08-20 12:07:06
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-20 12:18:01
Category
Commodities & Raw Materials
Geography
UK
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

Monthly production, trade, electricity generation and consumption of coal, electricity, gas, oil and total energy; solar PV deployment; retail price and EU comparative price data, and petrol & diesel price data.

Possibly the same underlying story as Accredited official statistics: Tobacco Bulletin — flagged automatically for review, never merged automatically.

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-20 12:18:01
Passed on: commodity_or_input_impact, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
1 · Low (16.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (39.0/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Insufficient
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Low (16.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • Entity Criticality data quality warning: all_linked_entities_data_insufficient.
  • no confidence-specificity evidence (actor entity, date, quantified value, or concrete verb)
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • structurally non-narrative content
  • Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
  • Only source-level geography metadata was available.
  • Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
  • 1 distinct hedging pattern(s) matched (capped at 20).
  • No content-derived entity or Event evidence was identified.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-20 12:18:01.