The UK's energy use from renewable and waste sources, by source (for example, hydroelectric power, wind, wave, solar, and so on) and industry (SIC 2007 section - 21 categories), 1990 to 2023.

Wind is the largest renewable energy source by installed capacity in the United Kingdom, including onshore and offshore wind. As of 2024, operational onshore wind farms had a combined capacity of ** gigawatts. Offshore wind had a capacity of **** gigawatts.

This release includes annual estimates of low carbon and renewable energy economy activity in the UK and constituent countries: turnover, employment, exports, imports, acquisitions, disposals and number of businesses.

Renewable energy consumption in the United Kingdom amounted to *****exajoules in 2024, remaining constant when compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, between 1998 and 2022, renewables consumption in the UK increased by ***** exajoules, peaking in 2024.

Context

This will act as the base data for the investigation into the possible solutions for the UK energy requirements

Content

A cleaned version of the UK statistics on renewable energy generation.

Acknowledgements

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/regional-renewable-statistics7

All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0,

Levels of support for renewable energy for electricity, heat and fuel in the United Kingdom have remained relatively unchanged since 2012. In 2012, 79 percent of respondents reported being supportive of the use of renewable energy, while five percent were opposed. This figure rose to 84 percent as of March 2023. The share of respondents who support renewables, however, has presented a growing trend.

The DOE Planning Portal provides provisional Renewable Energy statistics based on NI planning applications. Tables are available for Renewable Energy applications and decisions by type, Local Government District and Parliamentary Constituency levels, as well as historical data going back to 2002/03. Source agency: Environment (Northern Ireland) Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Renewable Energy Statistics

Offshore wind farms are the greatest contributor to renewable electricity generation in the United Kingdom. In 2024, offshore wind power production reached almost 49 terawatt hours. This followed the ever-increasing fleet of offshore wind parks. Onshore wind power production came to 34.7 terawatt hours in 2024. Offshore and onshore wind combined accounted for some 60 percent of the UK's renewable electricity generation that year.

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Annual estimates of Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy (LCREE) direct, indirect, and total turnover and employment in the UK, by sector and group. These are official statistics in development.

"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy" - Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2012

Context

Renewable energy is essential for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. Additionally, renewable energy

• improves public health
• creates jobs
• ensures energy security through diversification
• stabilises energy prices

The importance of moving away from fossil fuels and towards renewable sources cannot be understated. As such, this dataset tracks the growth of the UK's renewable sector from 1990 to 2020.

Content

This dataset details the consumption of energy from 17 different renewable and waste sources from 1990 to 2020. It contains the energy use from each source individually as well as the total consumption. It also contains the total energy consumption from primary fuels and therefore the very useful metric: % of consumption from renewables!

Units: The unit of energy used in this dataset is the megatonne of oil equivalent (mtoe) . For context 1 mtoe = 42 petajoules (42 x 10^15 J)

Dataset Notes

• Wind includes wave and tidal from 2000
• Cross-boundary adjustment includes use by UK residents abroad and excludes by foreign residents in UK territory. It applies to bioethanol and biodiesel.
• All figures are reported to 3 decimal places. Total figures are based on raw data and therefore may not sum due to rounding.

Acknowledgements

This data is from Ricardo Energy and Environment, Office for National Statistics (ONS) and was downloaded from here on 9 October 2022.

The dataset's release date was 9 June 2022.

The dataset is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 according to ONS.

Final renewable energy consumption in the United Kingdom increased by more than three fold in the period of consideration, peaking in 2023 at 20.3 million metric tons of oil equivalent. In 2021, figured decreased slightly, falling to around 17.7 million metric tons of oil equivalent from the previous year.

Electricity generation from renewable sources in the United Kingdom has increased considerably in the period of consideration, peaking at some 135 terawatt hours in 2022. In 2021, renewable electricity generation registered a small decline. In that year, renewable electricity production amounted to around 122 terawatt hours.

The United Kingdom Renewable Energy Market Report is Segmented by Technology (Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hydropower, Bioenergy, Geothermal, and Ocean Energy) and End-User (Utility, Commercial and Industrial, and Residential). The Market Sizes and Forecasts are Provided in Terms of Installed Capacity (GW).

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This dataset from National Grid ESO contains historical electricity demand data for Great Britain from 2009, updated every half-hour (48 entries per day). It is available in three versions: yearly files, a merged file for 2009–2025, and a cleaned version with NaNs removed and hourly timestamps.

Key columns include:

Date & Time: Settlement date and half-hourly settlement period. Demand Metrics: National Demand (ND), Transmission System Demand (TSD), and England & Wales Demand. Renewable Estimates: Embedded wind and solar generation and capacity. Additional Data: Pump storage, various interconnector flows (e.g., IFA, Moyle, NSL), and a holiday indicator.

File Types: - Historic_demand Data for a single year: demanddata_20xx.csv:

Combined yearly data: National Grid Data 2009-2025

Merged data with removed NaN values and hourly timestamps. National Grid Data 2009-2025_noNaN.csv

Column Summary:

• SETTLEMET_DATA: Date (dd/mm/yyyy).
• SETTLEMENT_PERIOD: Half-hour period of measurement.
• ND (National Demand): Total metered generation (MW), excluding extra generation for station load, pumping, and exports.
• TSD (Transmission System Demand): ND plus additional generation required for station load, pumping, and interconnector exports (MW).
• ENGLAND_WALES_DEMAND: Electricity demand for England & Wales (MW).
• EMBEDDED_WIND_GENERATION: Estimated wind generation from embedded (non-metered) wind farms (MW).
• EMBEDDED_WIND_CAPACITY: Estimated installed capacity of embedded wind (MW).
• EMBEDDED_SOLAR_GENERATION: Estimated solar generation from embedded PV panels (MW).
• EMBEDDED_SOLAR_CAPACITY: Estimated installed capacity of embedded solar (MW).
• NON_BM_STOR: Non-Balancing Mechanism Short-Term Operating Reserve (MW) for generation or demand reduction.
• PUMP_STORAGE_PUMPING: Demand due to hydro pump storage; negative values indicate pumping load.
• IFA_FLOW: Flow on the IFA interconnector (MW); negative indicates export, positive indicates import.
• IFA2_FLOW: Flow on the second IFA interconnector (MW).
• MOYLE_FLOW: Flow on the Moyle interconnector (MW); negative for export, positive for import.
• EAST_WEST_FLOW: Flow on the East-West interconnector (MW); negative for export, positive for import.
• NEMO_FLOW: Flow on the Nemo interconnector (MW); negative for export, positive for import.
• NSL_FLOW: Flow on the North Sea Link interconnector (MW); negative for export, positive for import.
• ELCLINK_FLOW: No data provided (blank).

Experimental estimates of turnover and employment in the Low carbon and renewable energy economy (LCREE) in the UK, its constituent countries and regions of England using data from the LCREE Survey and the Inter-Departmental Business Register.