{"id":868,"date":"2009-12-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2009-12-21T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:41:00","slug":"where-does-our-energy-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Where does our energy go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just doing a little research on how much energy the UK uses, and where it goes – with a view to wondering what we are going to be able to hang on to. This is where we get our energy from (here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Units are Million tonnes of oil equivalent
Coal: 37.9
Oil: 74.4
Gas: 93
Nuc: 11.9
Hydro: 1.1
Imports: 0.9
Renewables: 5.3<\/p>\n

Total: 224.4<\/p>\n

On an individual basis this works out at 3,814kg per head (here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The fossil fuel elements of that are going through the peaking process, so we can expect them first to become more expensive, then to become increasingly scarce (over what I would guesstimate as a twenty year period, see my post on UK gas supply here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Balance of payments questions
It has to be said that the UK is not best placed to withstand a constrained energy context. We import most of what we use and we are running out of ways to pay for it. This graph is from this post<\/a>:
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End use:
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source<\/a>
This is where household fuel goes:
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Some rapid tentative conclusions from the household level:<\/p>\n