Electricity Generation

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 3 January 2017.

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the UK's electricity is generated by companies based outside the UK.

Photo of Baroness Neville-Rolfe Baroness Neville-Rolfe The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury

The United Kingdom’s electricity producers have a 73GW power generation capacity, of which 58.8%, representing 43GW, is generated by companies whose parent company is based outside the UK.

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