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.
Answered on
25 June 2014
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% |
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Department for Energy and Climate Change