Natural Gas

(asked on 20th March 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, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK energy production that will originate from natural gas in each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 23rd March 2017

We estimate that the proportion of electricity produced in the UK (gross total electricity supplied) which will be generated from natural gas over the next ten years is as follows:

2017 38.80%

2018 36.78%

2019 34.50%

2020 34.76%

2021 35.38%

2022 38.99%

2023 41.13%

2024 44.58%

2025 42.19%

2026 37.20%

This excludes electricity supplied from other countries via interconnectors.

The above data is taken from the reference scenario in Annex J of BEIS’ 2016 Energy and Emissions Projections.

This and other scenarios with differing economic growth and fossil fuel prices are available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2016

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