Electricity Generation
(asked on 5th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many gigawatts of electricity they forecast will be required in 2030; and from what sources such electricity will be generated.
The table below shows projection of UK electricity generation (terawatt hours) and capacity (gigawatts) from all power producers by source for the year 2030.
| Capacity, GW | Generation, TWh |
Coal | 0 | 0 |
Coal and natural gas CCS | 0 | 0 |
Oil | 1 | 0 |
Natural gas | 37 | 67 |
Nuclear | 6 | 55 |
Other Thermal | 1 | 0 |
Renewables | 62 | 176 |
Interconnectors (net imports for generation) | 19 | 49 |
Storage (net output for generation) | 4 | -1 |
Total | 130 | 346 |
The figures are based on central estimates of economic growth and fossil fuel prices and contains all agreed policies where decisions on policy design are sufficiently advanced to allow robust estimates of impact as at August 2019. Further details can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections. Figures provided are extracted from BEIS Energy and Emissions Projections (EEP) 2019 Annex J, Total electricity generation by source and Annex L, Total electricity generating capacity.