HC Deb 08 November 2001 vol 374 cc332-3W
Mr. Stunell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the total installed capacity of renewable energy generation in the UK in each year since 1990. [13292]

Ms Hewitt

The available information is as follows:

MW
End December Capacity of renewable energy generation

in the UK in DNC1 terms
1990 1,234.8
1991 1,572.7
1992 1,644.5
1993 1,743.0
1994 1,795.3
1995 1,831.1
1996 1,962.0
1997 2,008.1
1998 2,171.3
1999 2,273.4
2000 2,439.7
1 Declared net capacity

Source

Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2001 Table 7.4 and corresponding tables for earlier years.

Mr. Stunell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what has been the proportion of electricity generated from(a) renewable and (b) UK-based renewable sources since 1990 (i) in total and (ii) compared with each fossil fuel type; [13286]

(2) what was the (a) total amount of electricity generated from renewable sources in the UK in each year since 1990 and (b) proportion of all electricity generated from (i) renewable sources and (ii) UK-based renewable sources in each year since 1990. [13291]

Ms Hewitt

The available information is as follows. Nuclear sources account for the proportion of generation that was neither from renewables nor fossil fuels. On b(i), the fuel source of imported electricity is not recorded separately in DTI statistics. It is assumed that electricity imported from France in these years was from non-fossil sources:

Proportion of total electricity

generated in the UK that was from:
Year Electricity generated

from renewable

sources in the UK

(GWh)

 Renewable

sources

(percentage)

 Fossil fuel

sources

(percentage)
1990 5,894 1.8 77
1991 5,409 1.7 76
1992 6,502 2.1 74
1993 5,883 1.8 69
1994 7,307 2.2 69
1995 7,283 2.2 70
1996 6,101 1.8 68
1997 7,428 2.1 68
1998 9,231 2.5 68
1999 10,199 2.8 69
2000 10,476 2.8 73

Source:

Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2001 Tables 5.6 and 7.44 and the corresponding tables for earlier years