DECC Energy Trends March 2013

Post by **mikepepler** » 31 Mar 2013, 20:57

I've done a quick summary of the latest DECC energy trends:
http://peakoilupdate.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... inues.html

Headline figures for 2012 compared to 2011 as a whole:
- Total energy production down 10.5%
- Oil production down 14.5%
- Gas production down 14%
- Coal production down 10%
- Hydro, wind and solar generation up 21%

Figures are worse for Q4 though, which can't have helped the current gas situation...

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 31 Mar 2013, 21:59

Not entirely unrelated to the thread I started yesterday at http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=22792
with a snappier title.

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 31 Mar 2013, 23:27

in which case someone will have to decide which figures are true. You can't have energy production down and at the same tome CO2 production up unless efficiency has dropped.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 01 Apr 2013, 06:51

woodburner wrote:You can't have energy production down and at the same tome CO2 production up unless efficiency has dropped.

Yes you can, if carbon intensity increases. A greater proportion of coal was burnt. This is explained in the DECC report.