Fossil Fuels
(asked on 14th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the UK’s energy supply was produced from fossil fuels in each year between 1997 and 2015.
The proportion of the UK’s energy supply produced from fossil fuels in each year between 1997 and 2015 is shown in the table.
Year | Proportion (%) |
1997 | 88.1 |
1998 | 88.3 |
1999 | 88.6 |
2000 | 89.9 |
2001 | 89.6 |
2002 | 89.5 |
2003 | 89.8 |
2004 | 90.2 |
2005 | 89.9 |
2006 | 90.1 |
2007 | 91.2 |
2008 | 91.2 |
2009 | 88.9 |
2010 | 89.5 |
2011 | 87.3 |
2012 | 87.1 |
2013 | 85.8 |
2014 | 84.3 |
2015 | 82.0 |
Data are published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2016, table 1.1.1.