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Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2010 Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2010 Production team: Iain MacLeay Kevin Harris Anwar Annut and chapter authors A National Statistics publication London: TSO © Crown Copyright 2010 All rights reserved First published 2010 ISBN 9780115155260 Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics Enquiries about statistics in this publication should be made to the contact named at the end of the relevant chapter. Brief extracts from this publication may be reproduced provided that the source is fully acknowledged. General enquiries about the publication, and proposals for reproduction of larger extracts, should be addressed to Kevin Harris, at the address given in paragraph XXIX of the Introduction. The Department of Energy and Climate Change reserves the right to revise or discontinue the text or any table contained in this Digest without prior notice. 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Contents Page Introduction 5 Contact list 9 Comparison of table numbers 10 Chapter 1 Energy 11 Chapter 2 Solid fuels and derived gases 39 Chapter 3 Petroleum 61 Chapter 4 Gas 95 Chapter 5 Electricity 115 Chapter 6 Combined heat and power 155 Chapter 7 Renewable sources of energy 179 Annex A Energy and commodity balances, conversion 213 factors and calorific values Annex B Glossary and acronyms 227 Annex C Further sources of UK energy publications 239 Annex D Major events in the energy industry 245 Monthly and quarterly data are also available for Energy, Solid fuels and derived gases, Petroleum, Gas and Electricity at: www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/source/source.aspx Information on Energy Prices is available at: www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/publications/prices/prices.aspx 1 A list of tables Table number Page Chapter 1 Energy 1.1-1.3 Aggregate energy balance 27 1.4-1.6 Value balance of traded energy 30 1.7 Sales of electricity and gas by sector 33 1.8 Final energy consumption by main industrial groups 34 1.9 Fuels consumed for electricity generation (autogeneration) by main industrial groups 36 Chapter 2 Solid fuels and derived gases 2.1-2.3 Coal: Commodity balances 50 2.4-2.6 Manufactured fuels: Commodity balances 53 2.7 Supply and consumption of coal 56 2.8 Supply and consumption of coke oven coke, coke breeze and other manufactured solid fuels 57 2.9 Supply and consumption of coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, benzole and tars 58 2.10 Deep mines in production, December 2009 59 2.11 Opencast sites in production, December 2009 60 Chapter 3 Petroleum 3.1 Primary oil: Commodity balances 85 3.2-3.4 Petroleum products: Commodity balances 86 3.5 Supply and disposal of petroleum 92 3.6 Additional information on inland deliveries of selected products 93 3.7 Stocks of crude oil and petroleum products at end of year 94 Chapter 4 Gas 4.1 Commodity balances 109 4.2 Supply and consumption of natural gas and colliery methane 110 4.3 UK continental shelf and onshore natural gas production and supply 111 4.4 Gas storage sites and import/export pipelines in the United Kingdom, May 2010 112 4.5 Natural gas imports and exports 113 Chapter 5 Electricity 5.1 Commodity balances 132 5.2 Electricity supply and consumption 134 5.3 Commodity balances, public distribution system and other generators 135 5.4 Fuel used in generation 136 5.5 Electricity supply, electricity supplied (net), electricity available, electricity consumption and electricity sales 137 5.6 Electricity fuel use, generation and supply 138 5.7 Plant capacity – United Kingdom 140 5.8 Plant capacity – England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 141 5.9 Capacity of other generators 141 5.10 Plant loads, demand and efficiency 142 5.11 Power stations in the United Kingdom, May 2010 143 5.12 Large scale CHP schemes in the United Kingdom, December 2009 151 2 Chapter 6 Combined heat and power 6.1 CHP installations by capacity and size range 168 6.2 Fuel used to generate electricity and heat in CHP installations 168 6.3 Fuel used by types of CHP installation 169 6.4 CHP - electricity generated by fuel and type of installation 170 6.5 CHP - electrical capacity by fuel and type of installation 171 6.6 CHP - heat generated by fuel and type of installation 172 6.7 CHP - heat capacity by fuel and type of installation 173 6.8 CHP capacity, output and total fuel use by sector 174 6.9 CHP - use of fuels by sector 177 Chapter 7 Renewable sources of energy 7.1-7.3 Commodity balances 200 7.4 Capacity of, and electricity generated from, renewable sources 206 7.5 Electricity generated from renewable sources - Renewables Obligation basis 207 7.6 Renewable sources used to generate electricity and heat and for transport fuels 208 7.7 Renewable sources data used to indicate progress under the EU Renewable Energy Directive 2008 (measured using net calorific values) 209 Annex A Energy and commodity balances, conversion factors and calorific values Standard conversion factors 221 A.1 Estimated average calorific values of fuels 2009 223 A.2 Estimated average gross calorific values of fuels 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2005 to 2009 224 A.3 Estimated average net calorific values of fuels, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2005 to 2009 225 3 4 Introduction I This issue of the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES) continues a series which commenced with the Ministry of Fuel and Power Statistical Digest for the years 1948 and 1949, published in 1950. The Ministry of Fuel and Power Statistical Digest was previously published as a Command Paper, the first being that for the years 1938 to 1943, published in July 1944 (Cmd. 6538). A publication tracing the history of energy production and use over the past 60 years was produced last year to mark the 60th anniversary of DUKES. The publication is available at: www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/publications/dukes/dukes.aspx II The current issue updates the figures given in the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2009, published in July 2009. III This printed and bound issue consists of seven chapters and four annexes. The first chapter deals with overall energy. The other chapters cover the specific fuels, combined heat and power and renewable sources of energy. The annexes cover conversion factors and calorific values, a glossary of terms, further sources of information and major events in the energy industries. IV This Digest is also available on the internet. Some additional information appears on the internet only. The tables on the internet are provided in Microsoft Excel format. Most internet versions of the tables include data for earlier years, which are not provided in the printed copy publication. For example commodity and energy balances (see VII and VIII, below) for 1998 to 2006 are included on the internet, and tables that show five years in this printed version show twelve years in their internet form because page sizes are not a limiting factor. In addition, the following appear on the internet version only: Long term trends text and tables Major events from 1990 to 2010 - Annex D (only Major events for 2008 to 2010 appear in the printed and bound version) Energy and the environment – Annex E UK oil and gas resources - Annex F Foreign trade – Annex G Flow charts – Annex H Energy balance: net calorific values – Annex I Heat reconciliation – Annex J V Annual information on prices is included in the publication Quarterly Energy Prices. This is available together with Energy Trends on subscription from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Further information on these publications can be found in Annex C. VI Where necessary, data have been converted or adjusted to provide consistent series. However, in some cases changes in methods of data collection have affected the continuity of the series. The presence of remaining discontinuities is indicated in the chapter text or in footnotes to the tables.
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