Digest of UK Energy Statistics published 26th July 2012

  By emma | July 29, 2012 - 03:02 |

A summary:
In 2011 UK energy production was down a record 13.2 per cent on a year earlier, its fastest
rate of decline for over 40 years, as a number of oil and gas production facilities were affected
by maintenance issues. (Tables 1.1 and 1.2).
Primary energy consumption was down 6.9 per cent. Final energy consumption fell by 7.3 per
cent with less energy used for heating.

So production down and helpfully consumption down.

Written by: emma on July 29, 2012.
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  • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic
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      • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic

        I thank you.

    • Emmazedbend

      I nicked the summary from someone else!

      • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic

        Yes ……… it shows.

        (are you still getting e-mail notifications for comments~?)

        • Emmazedbend

          No

          • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic

            Are you getting them now~?

            • Emmazedbend

              No, not to worry.

            • lgrinaker

              Mystic, although I’m still not getting email notifications of replies to me, it’s now very easy if I check within any thread of the site. Up top of any thread, for me at least, I see three column headings –
              Discussion Community My Disqus
              If I click on “My Disqus,” it will show me all of my notifications (and I’ve specified that I’d like notifications of replies to my comments). That’s much simpler than having to check within a thread, with the chance of missing some.
              And then, after I’m done with that, I can toggle to another column heading. Not bad at all…
              Linda

              • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic

                As long as you are happy…..Please do say if something is a bit off, because I can change some things (most of the time, I don’t know what I am doing, but I can change things).

    • http://www.alda-architects.co.uk/ Alan

      Thanks.

      Regarding notifications see no means to enable for threads of interest. There once was.

      • http://overthepeak.com/wordpress/ Mystic

        Would you elaborate on the `threads of interest` thing (I get the lot, so don’t know of the other things)~!?

        • http://www.alda-architects.co.uk/ Alan

          It seems to have appeared again, it is the bookmark the Permalink, (I think) strange terminology. If I click it then notification of posts on that specific thread are then forwarded and I can link to the comment or the thread.

          Strange I am almost certain it was not there these last few days. Could be something to do with various Disqus identities?

          Anyway seems to be back.

  • Anne Panne

    In the introduction to my Economics 101 class, the professor claimed that we were about to study how to make the most of limited resources. I had a hard time looking for any applications in real life. It was “the most” part that was hardest to spot.
    Oil has to be much to cheap? Deflation I know, but, but
    Life wasn’t all that bad when I was a kid – I could live like that again. I think we all could. What we can’t live with, is the treat of loosing the most important things in life.
    What an awful corner we have painted ourselves in to.

    • Emmazedbend

      Yes I quite agree!

  • http://www.alda-architects.co.uk/ Alan

    It is relatively easy for most people to reduce their energy consumption, and on a communal or individual level start producing more energy. Several problems firstly very little political will or sense of direction. (certainly where I am there is nothing coherent.)

    The second problem is that those who could benefit most from investment are the ones who cannot afford to invest. Those with surplus income can upgrade their insulation, install an air source heat pump and a few solar panels (whatever) and the investment will save them outlay over the next 10 years. The poor can only sit and freeze if energy prices increase.

    • Anne Panne

      We were quite poor as my father used to be out of work frequently – due to knocking his bosses in the face :).
      We never froze or starved, but the money were often tight.
      I don’t believe for a minute that we have to keep on this binge or else the poor will starve.

      • http://www.alda-architects.co.uk/ Alan

        You father was either a colourful character or had a collection of really irritating bosses.

        What worries me is that we head towards an energy crisis largely unprepared, and that it could be a lot worse than going back to say the 50s. I agree we need to stop the binge, but due to the complexity of our current economy and communications we are very vulnerable.

        To take just one example; when I was a child very few people owned a car, to go back to that would require major investment as settlement densities have all changed. Walking or cycling round to work would be a major undertaking for many. We need to rethink suburbia or find other sources of energy.

        • Anne Panne

          My father had a hard time learning to be a employee. As he was raised in a yeoman tradition, unlike my mother who was born a crofter.

          Yes, Most of us seem very vulnerable. But I believe we would have a better chance of to cope if we all fall at the same time. This slow decline divides us as we go down one by one.

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