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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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    I suspect the NESO figures will be for centrally metered generation - so is likely to be an  underestimate for small scale on-site generation like domestic PV - which at a national level merely looks like reduction in demand as the current is consumed either within the premises or in the local neighbourhood.

       - Andy.

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    Further to the links above,  the UK govt publishes the 'DUKES' Digest of UK energy statistics, which are about a year behind reality, but are used for central planning purposes. 

    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes

    This also allows the curious to look at other aspects of energy use in remarkable detail. (as well as power generation, chapters on transport fuels and so on )  The only problem, is there is rather a lot of it, much of it as tables of raw data, and even the annual 'summary' is a pretty long read.

    The most recent one is the one published in July 2024, mostly about UK energy use in 2023.

    Annual summary https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a7e14da3c2a28abb50d922/DUKES_2024_Chapters_1-7.pdf 

    and the raw data https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2024

    I suspect anyone who actually digests that lot probably ends up knowing rather  more about the UK energy use than the relevant minister !

    Mike.

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    Hello Mike:

    Even while DUKES does not cover 2024 it certainly appears to answer my questions.

    It struck me as strange that for a country that wanted to be self sufficient (think Brexit) it sure is importing a lot of electrical power..

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay Florida 

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    Peter Brooks said:
    It struck me as strange that for a country that wanted to be self sufficient (think Brexit) it sure is importing a lot of electrical power.

    Nuclear takes forever to build.  The last Conservative government pretty much banned all new onshore wind farms to appease the NIMBYs.  Then they set the price for offshore wind so low that nobody bid to build wind farms there either.  Maybe things will start moving again with a change of government.

    So we import nuclear and hydroelectric power from overseas instead.

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    Peter Brooks said:
    it sure is importing a lot of electrical power..

    Compared to what we import in oil, gas, food etc, it's a pretty low percentage.

       - Andy,

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    not since about the year 2000 have we been anywhere near self sufficient in energy and by now the north sea stocks of  both gas and oil are in terminal decline, - the heyday for peak UK wealth in that sense was probably the 1980s. Having lived through it I can say it did not feel like it.

    Mike.

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    not since about the year 2000 have we been anywhere near self sufficient in energy and by now the north sea stocks of  both gas and oil are in terminal decline, - the heyday for peak UK wealth in that sense was probably the 1980s. Having lived through it I can say it did not feel like it.

    Mike.

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