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Question reference: S3W-02216

Date lodged: 18 July 2007
Current status: Answered by Jim Mather on 6 August 2007

Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many megawatt hours of electricity were generated from (a) nuclear, (b) oil and gas, (c) hydro, (d) wind, (e) solar and (f) other sources in each year since 1980.

Answer

The ScottishExecutive doe not hold this information centrally. However, in 2006 the Scottish Executive published volumes 1 and 2 of the Scottish Energy Study whichprovides a comprehensive comparison of electricity supplies and demand in 1990and 2002.

These volumes of the Energy Study can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/19092748/0 - Volume 1http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/19093058/0 - Volume 2

National (UK)data from 1970 onwards, is available from the Department of Business andRegulatory Reform’s long term trends tables, which are published in theinternet version of the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics. At thefollowing link:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/statistics/source/electricity/page18527.html.

Wind and solardata are only available since 1998. These can be found in the renewableschapter of DUKES (Chapter 7) in Table 7.1 - 7.3, and also in Tables 7.4 and7.5.

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/statistics/source/renewables/page18513.html.

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