CHP installations: fuel use for electricity UK

This statistic displays the fuel use for electricity generation from Combined Heat and Power (CHP) schemes in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018, by fuel type, in gigawatt hours. It shows that the amount of renewable fuels used in CHP schemes increased over this period, from 3,418 gigawatt hours in 2010 to 9,854 gigawatt hours in 2018. The use of natural gas on the other hand has decreased notably.

Fuel used to generate electricity in CHP* installations in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018, by fuel type (in gigawatt hours)

Characteristic	Coal**	Fuel oil	Natural gas	Renewable fuels***	Other****
2010	1,484	694	43,244	3,418	9,674
2011	421	468	34,723	3,638	5,840
2012	543	525	36,203	3,966	5,083
2013	420	145	31,314	4,428	4,735
2014	386	120	30,612	5,363	4,773
2015	137	122	30,435	4,829	4,180
2016	113	133	31,502	6,393	3,877
2017	102	95	32,271	9,292	4,075
2018	113	98	33,756	9,854	3,555

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Release date

July 2019

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2010 to 2018

Supplementary notes

*Combined Heat and Power, also known as cogeneration.
**Coal includes coke.
***Renewable fuels include: Biomass; sewage gas; other biogases; municipal waste and refuse derived fuels.
****Other fuels include: process by-products, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, gas oil and refinery gas.

Data for 2010 was taken from a previous report.
This statistic using original data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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