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

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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  • 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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