DECC Releases Four Reports on UK Energy

The Department of Energy and Climate Change today releases 4 key publications: the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2013, UK Energy in Brief, Energy Flow Chart, and Energy Consumption in the United Kingdom (web only) providing detailed analysis of production, transformation and consumption of energy in 2012.

Some highlights from these reports are:

• Primary energy production fell by 10.7 per cent, on a year earlier, with further declines in oil and gas production.
• Final energy consumption rose by 1.7 per cent, reflecting the colder weather in 2012. On a temperature adjusted basis, energy consumption was down 0.7 per cent continuing the downward trend of the last eight years.
• Electricity generated from renewable sources in the UK in 2012 increased by 19 per cent on a year earlier, and accounted for 11.3 per cent of total UK electricity generation, up from 9.4 per cent in 2011. Total renewables, as measured by the 2009 EU Renewables Directive, accounted for 4.1 per cent of energy consumption in 2012, up from 3.8 per cent in 2011.
• With high gas prices, electricity generation shifted further from gas to coal in 2012, with the highest share of generation in 2012 coming from coal (39 per cent).

The publications are available on the following link.

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Press release, July 25, 2013