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For the complete year 2024 what fuel mix percentages were used to provide the UK with electrical energy?

Peter Brooks

At the start of each year my US Electrical power company issues a chart showing the fuel sources (Natural gas, Nuclear, Solar, Oil and coal etc) with its percentage (Natural gas of 75% or 43.3%) where the first percentage represents my Florida local power company and the second percentage the complete US.

Does a similar chart exists for the UK, covering the whole of 2024, where the KWh values used to calculate the percentages is based on "power consumed" by "paying" customers and not just considering potential generating capacity?

It should also include electrical power imported into the UK.

Peter Brooks Palm Bay Florida USAj

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  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    and you can see it in pretty graphs here too: https://electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard?period=1-year&start=2024-01-01

       - Andy.

  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    Hello Andy:

    This is exactly what I am looking for.

    The big difference with the US data is Wind - it is not big enough to be recorded as a percentage.

    There are wind turbines in the US but I have only seen them near the West Coast. There is work in progress to have a string of them in the Atlantic just off the Massachusetts coast.

    Massachusetts has some of the highest power costs in the US- twice what we pay here in Florida- it could be due to general tax practices however.

    I was watching a youtube program yesterday that highlighted the reasons why the UK pays such high power bills.

    It identified two companies that have gas based systems that are used to keep the UK power grid up in event of a major loss of  renewable energy.

    They bid for contracts for this service and are effectively being paid not to be used.

    It is like being hired as a hangman without there being a death penalty - just because the practice might come back.

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay 

      

       

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