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A special feature in the June 2011 edition of Energy Trends looks at Renewable energy in 2010. It includes summary renewables statistics for 2010, which are published for the first time. A full set of renewables statistics will appear in the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2011, which will be published on 28 July 2011. The main features of the latest statistics are:
The amount of electricity generated from renewables sources in 2010 was 25,734 GWh, a 2.2 per cent increase during the year.
Offshore wind generation increased by 75 per cent, but onshore wind generation fell by 6 per cent.
Generation capacity increased by nearly 1.2 GW (15 per cent).
Heat from renewable sources increased by 17 per cent during 2010 (to 1,212 ktoe); renewable biofuels for transport also increased by 17 per cent (to 1,214 ktoe).
Renewable transport fuels accounted for 3.6 per cent of road transport fuels in 2010. Bioethanol, as a proportion of motor spirit, increased from 1.5 per cent to 3.1 per cent.
Renewable energy provisionally accounted for 3.3 per cent of energy consumption, as measured using the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive methodology. This is an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the 2009 position of 3.0 per cent.
A number of weather factors had a major impact on renewable electricity generation during 2010; rainfall was 63 per cent lower than in 2009, making it the driest year since 2003, and average wind speeds were at their lowest level this century. Whilst these factors affect the raw 2010 outputs of renewables, the key Directive measures use a normalisation approach to smooth the year on year impacts of variable wind and rain.
There are various national and internationally agreed measures of the contribution renewable electricity makes to the generation mix. These show that in 2010:
? 6.8 per cent of electricity generation measured against the “International Definition” came from renewables (not normalised).
? 7.0 per cent of electricity sales by licensed suppliers in the UK were from electricity generated from renewables eligible for the Renewables Obligation, up from 6.7 per cent in 2009 (not normalised).
? 7.4 per cent of electricity consumption, as measured using the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive methodology, came from eligible renewable sources (normalised).
? 6.7 per cent of electricity generation, as measured using the 2001 Renewables Directive methodology, came from eligible renewable sources; if normalisation is used (adopting the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive methodology) the proportion increases to 7.3 per cent.