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UK Electricity Statistics – 2012

March 29, 2013
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By Paul Homewood

 

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DECC have issued their electricity stats now for Q4, so we can look at the annual numbers.

 

Highlights

1) Consumption of electricity has fallen by 0.2%, year on year.

2) Consumption by industry has fallen sharply by 2.4%, while domestic demand has increased by 1.4%. The former reflects, to some extent, falling manufacturing output, 1.5% lower than 2011.

3) Wind and Solar’s share of total output increased marginally from 4.3% to 5.7%.

4) Total Renewables rose from 9.4% to 11.3%, with Bio contributing, as well as wind.

5) Coal rose from 29.5% to 39.3%, with gas falling from 39.9% to 27.5%, both on the back of higher gas prices.

6) Nuclear was pretty much unchanged.

7) Net Imports nearly doubled to 4.3% of supply.

 

 

The government’s energy strategy currently seems to be :-

  • Continue shutting down industry.
  • Pray that the wind blows.
  • Hope the French and Dutch can supply a lot extra.

 

 

N.B DECC now lump solar data in with wind, presumably because it is so insignificant.

 

 

 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-section-5-energy-trends

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7 Comments
  1. kim2ooo permalink
    March 29, 2013 5:46 pm

    Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.

  2. Brian H permalink
    March 29, 2013 7:03 pm

    Ole King Coal …

  3. fenbeagleblog permalink
    March 30, 2013 12:53 am

    N.B DECC now lump solar data in with wind, presumably because it is so insignificant.

    …Does that mean the light blue area is actually wind and solar then? Not ‘wind’.

    • Paul Homewood permalink*
      March 30, 2013 10:54 am

      Yes (also includes tidal apparently as well!).

      I’m not sure when DECC changed it over, but I’ve amended my graph for next time.

  4. Bill Irvine permalink
    March 30, 2013 2:48 pm

    Are they double counting the electricity associated with “Pumped”
    First the electricity generated and used to pump the water up the hill
    and
    Secondly the electricity generated by letting the water flow down the hill?

    • Paul Homewood permalink*
      March 30, 2013 3:00 pm

      Interestingly the figures they show are :-

      Generated 2.97TWH

      Supplied Minus 1.01TWH

      I guess that means the net is 1.96TWH.

      In fact all the main generating sources generate more than they supply, as some of their power output is used by themselves, but obviously not to the same proportion as pumped.

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