Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 11 July 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the primary energy consumption by fuel is in million tonnes oil equivalent in respect of (a) oil, (b) natural gas, (c) coal, (d) nuclear energy and (e) hydro and renewables for (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.
Primary energy consumption data are only available for the UK. The following table shows provisional 2010 data.
Inland energy consumption: primary fuel input basis | |||||||
Million tonnes of oil equivalent | |||||||
Primary electricity | |||||||
Total | Coal (1) | Petroleum (2) | Natural gas (3) | Nuclear | Wind and natural flow hydro (4) | Net imports | |
2010 | 217.6 | 36.8 | 70.5 | 95.1 | 13.7 | 1.19 | 0.23 |
(1) Includes solid renewable sources (wood, straw and waste), a small amount of renewable primary heat sources (solar, geothermal, etc.), liquid biofuels and net foreign trade and stock changes in other solid fuels. (2) Inland deliveries for energy use, plus refinery fuel and losses, minus the differences between deliveries and actual consumption at power stations. (3) Includes gas used during production, colliery methane, landfill gas and sewage gas. Excludes gas flared or re-injected and non-energy use of gas. (4) Includes generation by solar PV. Excludes generation from pumped storage stations. Source: Energy Trends table 1.2: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/energy_stats/source/total/total.aspx |
Finalised figures for 2010 will be published on
Data on final consumption at local authority level within England, Wales and Scotland have been published from 2003 onwards, with the latest complete data relating to 2008. Data on final consumption of gas, electricity and road transport fuels are currently available for 2009, with the remaining fuels due to be published later this year.
As different data sources are used for the sub-national analysis, with some data being modelled and other data being collected over slightly different time periods, the totals do not completely agree with data published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics.
Data on electricity consumption for council areas within Northern Ireland were published for the first time last year, and relate to 2008 for domestic consumption and 2009 for non-domestic consumption. Data on gas consumption within Northern Ireland are not available. As a result of the incomplete coverage, Northern Ireland data have been excluded from the following table.
The 2008 data show the following breakdowns by country and fuel type.
Final energy consumption, in thousand tonnes of oil equivalent, by fuel and country, 2008 | ||||
Fuel | Scotland | England | Wales | Great Britain total |
Coal | 217.4 | 1,357.0 | 160.2 | 1,734.6 |
Manufactured fuels | 104.6 | 1,644.3 | 346.2 | 2,095.1 |
Petroleum Products (excluding aviation use) | 5,613.2 | 44,369.5 | 3,804.4 | 53,787.1 |
Natural gas | 4,937.6 | 42,933.0 | 2,552.4 | 50,423.1 |
Electricity | 2,434.2 | 22,017.5 | 1,398.7 | 25,850.5 |
Renewables and wastes | 135.0 | 605.6 | 116.1 | 856.7 |
Total | 13,442.1 | 112,927.0 | 8,377.9 | 134,747.1 |
Source: Total final energy consumption at sub-national level, DECC, available at: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/energy_stats/regional/total_final/total_ final.aspx |
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