Renewable energy generation and capacity breakdown in the UK 2019, by source

Published by Lucía Fernández, Oct 11, 2023
Onshore wind energy recorded the highest renewable capacity share in the United Kingdom, at 29.9 percent. By comparison, solar photovoltaic (PV) closely followed, at 28.3 percent of UK's total renewable capacity. On the other hand, bioenergy was the technology with the highest electricity generation share, at 31 percent.

Distribution of renewable electricity generation and capacity in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019, by source

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July 2020

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2019

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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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