Asked by: Lord Kilclooney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the percentage of the contribution of wind energy to the electric power produced in Great Britain in each of the past 10 years.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The latest data is shown in the table below:
Wind’s share of electricity generation in Great Britain, 2012 - 2021[1]
Electricity generation (GWh) | Wind | Total GB generation | Wind’s share of GB generation (%) |
2012 | 18,805 | 356,492 | 5.3% |
2013 | 27,052 | 350,502 | 7.7% |
2014 | 30,501 | 330,216 | 9.2% |
2015 | 38,414 | 330,115 | 11.6% |
2016 | 35,426 | 329,971 | 10.7% |
2017 | 47,136 | 328,490 | 14.3% |
2018 | 53,974 | 323,413 | 16.7% |
2019 | 60,835 | 314,607 | 19.3% |
2020 | 72,350 | 302,615 | 23.9% |
2021 | 61,955 | 299,068 | 20.7% |
Provisional 2022 data for the UK will be published on Thursday March 30th 2023 in Energy Trends. 2022 data for Great Britain will be published in December in Energy Trends.
[1] Taken from data published by BEIS in Energy Trends: December 2022, special feature article - Electricity generation and supply in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England