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UK energy supply. Report 32 (1986)

AuteurJ.Penman
Datumoktober 1986
Classificatie 2.05.0.00/49 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - ALGEMEEN)
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Uit de publicatie:

1. INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW OF UK ENERGY SUPPLY SINCE 1950

Figure 1 shows the history of UK commercial primary energy consumption (PEC) 
between 1950 and 1984 (1). Five main periods may be identified:

1950-1968 Coal declines from about 90% of PEC to about 50%, being largely 
substituted by oil. Nuclear power appears at about 1960 but only captures 3% of 
PEC by 1968. Total PEC increases from 228 to 314 million tonnes of coal 
equivalent (MTCE).

1968-1973 Oil continues to substitute for coal, overtaking it in 1970 as the largest 
contributor to PEC. Natural gas, which first appears in 1965, rises rapidly to 12% 
of PEC by 1973. Nuclear electricity fluctuates at about 3%.

1973-1979 Following the 1973 oil crisis which increased real oil prices approximately 
threefold (see figure 2), oil consumption falls but levels out after 1975. Coal 
rallies and both converge to 36% and 39% of PEC respectively by 1979. Natural gas 
increases to 20% of PEC but nuclear electricity is stagnant at about 4%. Total PEC 
falls to 328 MTCE in 1975 but increases again to 356 MTCE.

1979-1983 The second oil crisis which followed the 1979 Iranian revolution again 
increases the oil price and brings a further sharp fall in consumption. Coal and oil 
decline together to about 35% of PEC each by 1983. Natural gas increases in both 
percentage and absolute terms to 24% of PEC. Nuclear electricity rises to 6%. Total 
PEC falls rapidly to 312 MTCE by 1982 and then remains constant.

1984 The miners' strike causes a large anomalous substitution of oil for coal 
increasing the former to 43% of PEC and decreasing the latter to 25%. The average 
of coal and oil stays on the declining trend at about 33% PEC. Natural gas is 25%, 
nuclear electricity 6%. Total PEC remains at 312 MTCE.

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