Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent forecast he has made as part of his planning capacity of UK electricity demand for 2030.

BEIS published UK electricity demand projections in the Energy and Emissions Projections (EEP) report. The latest version of the projections, EEP 2019[1], was published in October 2020.

Annex O of EEP 2019 includes two illustrative net zero electricity demand and generation scenarios. The two scenarios are from BEIS’ UKTIMES Model (UKTM) and are consistent with reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole UK economy by 2050. These demand scenarios illustrate possible scenarios for future electricity demand but are neither forecasts of, nor bounds around, future levels of UK electricity demand.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2019