Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform publishes UK Energy Trends
Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices are published today by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform.
Amongst the findings are
• Scotland has greater renewables generating capacity than England, but England generates more electricity from renewables than Scotland. This is because biofuels based capacity (the most common source in England) is used more intensively than hydro and wind (which predominate in Scotland).
• In Wales wind generated 215 per cent more electricity than hydro, but England now generates more electricity from wind than Wales does. In 2006 Scotland generated twice as much electricity from wind as England did.
• In England the region with the largest generation is now the South East and this is 90 per cent from biofuels. The East remains the largest in terms of generating capacity. The North East and London have the lowest capacities, but if allowance is made for the smaller size of the North East in economic activity terms, it is third largest behind the East and the North West.
• In England the regions with the largest generation from wind in 2006 (including offshore wind with landfall in that region) were the East, the South East and the North West, while the same three regions had the largest generation from landfill gas.
• Yorkshire and the Humber and the South East are the largest generators from "other biofuels" because of the co-firing of biomass in coal fired power stations.
• The largest contribution to electricity generation from CHP in 2006 came from Yorkshire and the Humber. Next largest are the North West and the South East. Nearly 60 per cent of the UK's CHP generation comes from these 3 regions.• In terms of economic activity (as measured by Gross Value Added) Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East have the greatest regional shares of CHP electricity generation capacity with more than twice the density of the North West in third position.
The complete version of Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices is available for download here.