Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 8 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the total output of electricity in Scotland was from (a) coal, (b) gas and (c) nuclear generation from 1 January to 30 June 2012.
The table shows the generation of electricity (GWh) by fuel type in Scotland in 2010:
Fuel type | Scotland | UK total | Scotland as a percentage of the UK total |
Coal | 14,715 | 107,694 | 14 |
Oil | 1,213 | 4,860 | 25 |
Gas | 8,381 | 175,003 | 5 |
Nuclear | 16,381 | 70,323 | 23 |
Thermal Renewables | 299 | 5,358 | 6 |
Hydro Natural Flow | 3,266 | 3,603 | 91 |
Hydro Pumped Storage | 1,830 | 5,416 | 34 |
Non-thermal renewables | 3,825 | 8,872 | 43 |
Total | 49,908 | 381,129 | 13 |
Source: Table 2, special feature article titled “Electricity generation and supply figures for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England”, Energy Trends December 2011 http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/stats/publications/energy-trends/3917-trends-dec-2011.pdf |
Generation statistics have been provided to answer this question because statistics on the supply of electricity are not available at this level of detail ie only available as a UK total.
Statistics on the generation of electricity at this level of detail are not yet available for 2011 or 2012. These will become available in an annual article “Electricity generation and supply figures for Scotland, Wales. Northern Ireland and England”, which is published in the quarterly edition of Energy Trends. The 2011 statistics will be published in the December 2012 edition at 09:30 on
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/publications/trends/trends.aspx
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