Renewable Energy

(asked on 15th September 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the proportion of energy used in the UK that was from renewable sources in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 23rd September 2015

The table below shows the proportion of energy used in the UK from renewable sources, in each of the last five years, as measured under the 2009 EU Renewable Energy Directive.

20102011201220132014

Renewable energy

share of gross final energy

consumption

3.8%4.2%4.7%5.6%7.0%

Source:

Table DUKES 6.7, Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2015 available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

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