Electricity: Imports
(asked on 4th July 2017) - 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 many TWh of electricity have been imported into the UK by individual interconnectors since 2012.
This question was answered on 12th July 2017
The Government routinely publishes total import figures from interconnectors in the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), and the quarterly National Statistics Energy Trends data.
Electricity imported to the UK from January 2012 to end March 2017 amounts to the following:
- IFA (Interconnexion France-Angleterre) (France-England): 59.7 TWh;
- BritNed (Netherlands-England): 37.7 TWh;
- EWIC (East-West Interconnector) (Ireland-Wales): 2.3 TWh;
- NSI (North-South Interconnector) (Ireland-Northern Ireland): 1.1 TWh.
In addition, 1.26 TWh were imported into GB from Northern Ireland.