PowerSwitch

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...

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

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.

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.