Wind Power
(asked on 7th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of energy generated from wind power each day in the UK.
Answered by
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 21st January 2021
On average in 2019, wind generated 176 GWh of electricity per day in the UK. This is calculated as the total amount of electricity generated by onshore and offshore wind in 2019 divided by the number of days. The 2019 generation figure is published by BEIS in DUKES 6.4 (copy attached).
Full statistics for 2020 are not yet available. Provisional statistics will be published on March 25th on the GOV.UK website.