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Q4 2022 statistics are similar, with low carbon electricity generation (which includes nuclear) at 57.9% of total electricity generation (same as Q4 2021). [3] Wind energy production was 26,000 GWh in Q4 2022 (from 2,300 GWh in Q1 2010), and the installed capacity of 29,000 MW (5,000 in 2010) [4] ranked the UK 6th in the world in 2022.
Energy mix of the United Kingdom over time. Total energy consumption in the United Kingdom was 142.0 million tonnes of oil equivalent (1,651 TWh) in 2019. [2] In 2014, the UK had an energy consumption per capita of 2.78 tonnes of oil equivalent (32.3 MWh) compared to a world average of 1.92 tonnes of oil equivalent (22.3 MWh). [3]
Q4 2022 statistics are similar, with low carbon electricity generation (which includes nuclear) at 57.9% of total electricity generation (same as Q4 2021). [70] Wind energy production was 26,000 GWh in Q4 2022 (from 2,300 GWh in Q1 2010), and the installed capacity of 29,000 MW (5,000 in 2010) [71] ranked the UK 6th in the world in 2022.
Ending the use of coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, for power could play a major part in limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F), a key international ...
The UK has committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. [8] The target for 2030 is a 68% reduction compared with 1990 levels. [9] The UK has been successful in keeping its economic growth alongside taking climate change action. Since 1990, the UK'a greenhouse gas emissions have reduced by 44% while the economy has grown by around 75% up until 2019. [10]
In 2020, coal produced 4.4 TWh of electricity and Britain went 5,202 hours free from coal electricity generation, up from 3,665 hours in 2019 and 1,856 in 2018. [73] In August and September 2021, the UK had to restart coal plants, amidst a lack of wind, as power imports from Europe were insufficient to satisfy demand. [74] [75]
In November 2017 the UK Government co-founded the Powering Past Coal Alliance. In June 2021, the government said it would end coal power by October 2024. [4] [5] The United Kingdom had continuously burned coal for the generation of electricity since the opening of Holborn Viaduct power station in 1882.
The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme was (as of October, 2021) the only major open-pit operating in the UK with a few small to very small other sites (employee count much less than 50 per mine for all sites other Ffos-y-fran) still in operation. Also, no major applications were pending to open new mines as of October, 2021.