Electricity Interconnectors: Europe
(asked on 11th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much of the energy the UK uses is provided by undersea cables from mainland Europe.
This question was answered on 19th May 2021
The following table shows net imports from mainland Europe as a proportion of total UK electricity supply for 2017 to 2020. The data for 2020 is provisional; final data will be published at the end of July.
Year | Net imports % of UK electricity supply |
2017 | 4.2 % |
2018 | 5.7 % |
2019 | 6.6 % |
2020 | 5.6 % |
Source: Energy Trends tables 5.1 and 5.6
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends