Nuclear Power

(asked on 18th June 2014) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK's energy supply he expects to be obtained from nuclear energy in each of the next five years.


Answered by
Michael Fallon Portrait
Michael Fallon
This question was answered on 25th June 2014

DECC's most recent projections of future electricity generation were made as part of the EMR December Delivery Plan 2013. The percentage of total electricity generation expected from nuclear sources in each calendar year is shown below in Table 1.

Table 1: Yearly percentage of total electricity generation expected from nuclear sources

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Percentage of total generation from nuclear sources (%)

17.4%

17.6%

17.2%

17.3%

17.4%

17.4%

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