Electricity: Housing
(asked on 13th July 2017) - 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 annual average household electricity consumption was in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland since 2010.
The table shows average (mean) annual electricity consumption per domestic meter in the UK, split by country since 2010.
Average UK annual domestic electricity consumption (kWh), 2010-15
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
England | 4,163 | 4,095 | 4,035 | 3,963 | 3,972 | 3,914 |
Wales | 3,916 | 3,845 | 3,787 | 3,736 | 3,734 | 3,685 |
Scotland | 4,148 | 4,059 | 3,969 | 3,852 | 3,918 | 3,836 |
Northern Ireland | 3,956 | 3,744 | 3,915 | 3,998 | 3,775 |
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UK | 4,146 | 4,074 | 4,014 | 3,941 | 3,952 |
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Figures for Northern Ireland were taken from BEIS’ sub-national domestic electricity consumption statistics in Northern Ireland:
All other figures were taken from BEIS’ sub-national electricity consumption statistics:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data
Consumption data for Northern Ireland for 2015 will be published in September 2017, with GB data for 2016 published in December 2017.
These figures show consumption per electricity meter rather than per household. These differ slightly as some households have more than one electricity meter while others have less (due to sharing a meter with neighbouring households). Figures on a household basis are available for Great Britain via the second link above, but are unavailable for Northern Ireland or the UK as a whole.
Figures for the UK include consumption for households which couldn’t be assigned to a particular country due to incomplete address data.