Electricity: Consumers
(asked on 20th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total number of domestic electricity consumers was in the UK in each of the last five years.
BEIS publishes statistics on the number of domestic electricity customers in Great Britain and also Northern Ireland. These statistics were last updated on the 31st of March 2022.[1],[2] [3]
A summary of the historic number of meter points from these published statistics is provided in table 1. (Figures are only available up to 2020 for Northern Ireland).
Table 1 - Total number of domestic electricity customers 2017 -2021
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
GB | 28,217,000 | 28,439,000 | 28,663,000 | 28,831,000 | 29,082,000 |
Northern Ireland | 886,000 | 895,000 | 904,000 | 907,000 | - |
Total | 29,103,000 | 29,334,000 | 29,567,000 | 29,738,000 | N/A |
Note: the GB figures are taken from the December total for each year. Also, the total number of customers reported in the above statistics is based on the number of electricity meter points. As a result, these values are higher than from the total number of households in the UK, owing to some household having multiple meters.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-switching-statistics