Electricity Interconnectors
(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the UK's electricity is currently imported from other EU countries via interconnectors; and what percentage is forecast for 2030.
This information is publicly available in:
- Table 5.1: ‘Fuel used in Electricity Generation and Electricity Supplied’, of the 2019 ‘Energy Trends: Electricity’, published by BEIS; and
- Figure 5.1: ‘Electricity Generation by Fuel Source’, of the 2018 ‘Energy and Emissions Projections’, published by BEIS (see table below):
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Year | Coal | Gas | Oil | Nuclear | Renewables | Imports |
2018 | 8 | 119 | 0 | 57 | 121 | 28 |
2019 | 2 | 106 | 0 | 59 | 127 | 32 |
2020 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 59 | 135 | 27 |
2021 | 0 | 81 | 0 | 59 | 145 | 33 |
2022 | 1 | 73 | 0 | 59 | 150 | 36 |
2023 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 53 | 158 | 30 |
2024 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 36 | 163 | 50 |
2025 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 40 | 170 | 41 |
2026 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 53 | 177 | 31 |
2027 | 0 | 78 | 0 | 56 | 170 | 35 |
2028 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 65 | 171 | 34 |
2029 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 72 | 180 | 29 |
2030 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 64 | 185 | 46 |
2031 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 69 | 189 | 50 |
2032 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 81 | 194 | 46 |
2033 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 81 | 199 | 50 |
2034 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 92 | 206 | 43 |
2035 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 104 | 211 | 33 |