United Kingdom Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 113.153 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 289.688 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 4.481 billion kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 22.391 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 27.746 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 37.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 15.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 4.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 25.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 2.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 15% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 9 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 2

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 5.88GW (2023)

Percent of total electricity production: 14.8% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 8% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 8

Coal

production: 2.892 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 9.401 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 1.309 million metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 5.537 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 26 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 890,400 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 1,578,100 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 818,200 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 891,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 2.5 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

1.29 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

613,800 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

907,500 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 32.48 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

consumption: 75.7 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

exports: 6.873 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

imports: 51,050,178,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 180.661 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

398.084 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 23.5 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 216.237 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 158.346 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

119.894 million Btu/person (2019 est.)