Gareth Johnson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2014-06-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK’s energy supply he expects to be obtained from nuclear energy in each of the next five years.
Michael Fallon
DECC’s most recent projections of future electricity generation were made as part of the EMR December Delivery Plan 2013. The percentage of total electricity generation expected from nuclear sources in each calendar year is shown below in Table 1.
Table 1: Yearly percentage of total electricity generation expected from nuclear sources
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
|
Percentage of total generation from nuclear sources (%) |
17.4% |
17.6% |
17.2% |
17.3% |
17.4% |
17.4% |