Energy Supply
(asked on 25th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the UK electricity supply was provide by each fuel source including electricity provided by interconnectors in (a) 2012 and (b) 2017.
The share of UK electricity generated domestically plus net imports, by each fuel source in a) 2012 and b) 2017 was:
| 2012 | 2017 |
Coal | 38.0% | 6.4% |
Oil | 0.8% | 0.5% |
Gas | 26.7% | 38.7% |
Nuclear | 18.7% | 19.9% |
Hydro | 1.4% | 1.7% |
Wind | 5.3% | 14.1% |
Solar photovoltaics | 0.4% | 3.3% |
Other renewables | 3.9% | 9.0% |
Other | 0.9% | 1.5% |
Pumped Storage | 0.8% | 0.8% |
Net imports | 3.2% | 4.2% |
Total generation plus net imports | 100.0% | 100.0% |
Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics, tables 5.6 (generation by fuel), 6.4 (wind & solar) and 5.1 (net imports) https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes