High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, December 22, 2011
Electricity Generation
In 2010, Scotland generated a total of 49,908 GWh of electricity, a decrease of 3% on 2009. The main source of electricity generation in 2010 was nuclear power, accounting for 30.6% of the electricity generated. Output from nuclear power was particularly low in 2006 and 2007 due to unplanned condition related outages. Coal accounted for 29.5% of the total electricity generation in Scotland in 2010 - up from 23.2% in 2009.
Renewable sources accounted for 19.1% of electricity generated in 2010, a decrease of 11.3% in the amount of electricity generated by renewables since 2009. The drop in renewable electricity generation in 2010 was a result of a fall in hydro generation due to very low rainfall in 2010. The share of electricity generated from non-Hydro renewable sources (wind, wave, tidal, solar power and thermal renewables) has consistently increased every year from 0.6% in 2000 to 12.5% in 2010.
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Source: Department of Energy and Climate Change
Notes
(1) Coal includes a small quantity of non-renewable wastes.
(2) Other renewables includes wind, wave, tidal, solar power and thermal renewables.
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