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ENERGY TRENDS DECEMBER 2018 December 2018 This document is available in large print, audio and braille on request. Please email [email protected] with the version you require. This is a National Statistics publication The United Kingdom Statistics Authority has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the UK Statistics Authority: Code of Practice for Statistics. 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Contents Introduction 2 The main points for the third quarter of 2018 3 Section 1 - Total Energy 4 Tables 1.1: Indigenous production of primary fuels 12 1.2: Inland energy consumption: primary fuel input basis 13 1.3: Supply and use of fuels, and Seasonally adjusted and temperature corrected 14 final energy consumption Section 2 - Solid Fuels and Derived Gases 17 Tables 2.1: Supply and consumption of coal 22 2.2: Supply and consumption of coke oven coke, coke breeze and other 23 manufactured solid fuels 2.3: Supply and consumption of coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, 24 benzole and tars Section 3 - Oil and Oil Products 25 Tables 3.1: Supply and use of crude oil, natural gas liquids and feedstocks 32 3.2: Supply and use of petroleum products 33 3.4: Supply and use of petroleum products – latest quarter 34 3.5: Biofuels sales and sales through supermarkets 35 3.6: Stocks of petroleum at end of period 36 Section 4 - Gas 37 Table 4.1: Natural gas supply and consumption 45 Section 5 - Electricity 46 Tables 5.1: Fuel used in electricity generation and electricity supplied 54 5.2: Supply and consumption of electricity 55 Section 6 - Renewables 56 Tables 6.1: Renewable electricity capacity and generation 63 6.2: Liquid biofuels for transport consumption 64 Special feature articles Electricity generation and supply figures for Scotland, Wales, Northern 65 Ireland and England, 2014 to 2017 Feed-in Tariff load factor analysis 79 Do households move in and out of fuel poverty? 87 International energy price comparisons 93 Recent and forthcoming publications of interest to users of energy statistics 99 1 Introduction Energy Trends and Energy Prices are produced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on a quarterly basis. Both periodicals are published concurrently in June, September, December and March. The December editions cover the third quarter of the current year. Energy Trends includes information on energy as a whole and by individual fuels. The text and charts provide an analysis of the data in the tables. The tables are mainly in commodity balance format, as used in the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics. The 2018 edition of the Digest was published on 26 July 2018 and is available on the BEIS section of the GOV.UK website at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes The balance format shows the flow of a commodity from its sources of supply, through to its final use. The articles provide in-depth information on current issues within the energy sector. The text and tables included in this publication represent a snapshot of the information available at the time of publication. However, the data collection systems operated by BEIS, which produce this information, are in constant operation. New data are continually received and revisions to historic data made. To ensure that those who use the statistics have access to the most up-to- date information, revised data will be made available as soon as possible. The tables are available free of charge from the BEIS section of the GOV.UK website. In addition to quarterly tables, the main monthly tables continue to be updated and are also available on the BEIS section of the GOV.UK website. Both sets of tables can be accessed at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial- strategy/about/statistics Energy Trends does not contain information on Foreign Trade, Weather (temperature, wind speed, sun hours and rainfall) and Prices. Foreign Trade and Weather tables are, however, available on the BEIS section of the GOV.UK website at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial- strategy/about/statistics. Information on Prices can be found in the Energy Prices publication and on the BEIS section of the GOV.UK website at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/quarterly-energy-prices Please note that the hyperlinks to tables within this document will open the most recently published version of a table. If you require a previously published version of a table, please contact Kevin Harris (see details below). If you have any comments on Energy Trends or Energy Prices publications, please send them to: Kevin Harris BEIS Energy Statistics Team 5th Floor - Victoria 3 1 Victoria Street London SW1H 0ET E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 0300 068 5041 2 The main points for the third quarter of 2018: • Total energy production was 0.7 per cent higher than in the third quarter of 2017. This rise in output was driven by increased gas, bioenergy and renewables (wind, solar and hydro) production levels. • Oil production fell by 1.3 per cent when compared with the third quarter of 2017. • Natural gas production was 4.4 per cent high than the third quarter of 2017. Gas imports fell by 17 per cent, whilst exports fell by 14 per cent. Gas consumption was down 4.1 per cent, with domestic consumption down by 7.1 per cent. • Coal production in the third quarter of 2018 was 9.0 per cent lower than the third quarter of 2017, due to falling demand. Coal imports were 17 per cent higher. Generators’ demand for coal fell by 13 per cent. • Total primary energy consumption for energy uses fell by 1.4 per cent. However, when adjusted to take account of weather differences between the third quarter of 2017 and the third quarter of 2018, primary energy consumption fell by 1.1 per cent. • Temperatures in the quarter were on average 1.2 degrees warmer than a year earlier, with average temperatures in July and August 2018 being respectively 2.2 and 1.1 degrees warmer than a year earlier. • Final energy consumption (excluding non-energy use) fell by 0.4 per cent compared to the third quarter of 2017. Domestic consumption fell by 4.5 per cent reflecting the warmer weather in the quarter, service consumption fell by 3.0 per cent, whilst transport consumption rose by 1.2 per cent and industrial consumption rose by 0.6 per cent. On a seasonally and temperature adjusted basis, final energy consumption fell by 1.2 per cent. • Gas demand was 4.3 per cent lower than the third quarter of 2017, with a 6.0 per cent fall in use by electricity generators. Overall electricity consumption was at a record low, 0.6 per cent lower than in the third quarter of 2017. • Total deliveries of the key transport fuels were stable on a year earlier. Excluding the biodiesel component, diesel deliveries were up 0.5 per cent, whilst motor spirit deliveries were down 1.2 per cent. • Electricity generated in the third quarter of 2018 fell by 0.4 per cent, from 75.6 TWh a year earlier to a record low of 75.3 TWh. • Of electricity generated in the third quarter of 2018, gas accounted for 38.6 per cent, down from 39.9 per cent in the third quarter of 2017, whilst coal accounted for 2.5 per cent, down from 2.9 per cent in the third quarter of 2017. Nuclear generation accounted for 22.9 per cent of total electricity generated in the third quarter of 2018, down from 24.0 per cent in the third quarter of 2017. • Low carbon electricity’s share of generation increased from 54.0 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to a record high of 56.0 per cent in the third quarter of 2018, due to increased renewables generation. • Renewables’ share of electricity generation increased to a record 33.1 per cent, up from the 30.0 per cent share in the third quarter of 2017. Renewable electricity capacity was 43.2 GW at the end of the third quarter of 2018, a 10 per cent increase (3.9 GW) on a year earlier. Overall renewable electricity generation was up 10 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2017. 3 Total Energy Section 1 - Total Energy Key results show: Total energy production was 0.7 per cent high er than in the third quarter of 2017, driven by increased gas, bioenergy and renewables production. (Charts 1.1 & 1.2) Total primary energy consumption for energy uses fell by 1.4 per cent.