UK Electricity Production

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Dec. 12, 2012 at 1:20 p.m. GMT

Total Production
50.79 GW Very High
Carbon Intensity
624 gCO2/kWh Very High
Renewables
2.9%
Low Carbon
13.0%
Fossil Fuels
84.1%
Biomass 598 MW 1.2%
CCGT 18,673 MW 36.8%
Coal 23,351 MW 46.0%
Hydroelectric 408 MW 0.8%
Interconnects -1,308 MW -2.6%
Nuclear 7,630 MW 15.0%
OCGT 0 MW 0.0%
Oil 700 MW 1.4%
Other 0 MW 0.0%
Pumped Storage 282 MW 0.6%
Solar 0 MW 0.0%
Wind 452 MW 0.9%