Guidance

UK fuel mix data: methodology

Details of the methodology used to calculate the UK fuel mix.

From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
1 August 2012
Last updated
1 August 2018 — See all updates

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UK fuel mix methodology (updated 2018)

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Details

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes the annual fuel mix disclosure data as defined in The Electricity (Fuel Mix Disclosure) Regulations 2005.

This document sets out the calculations behind the residual fuel mix. The residual fuel mix is used by electricity suppliers to calculate the electricity they supply between fuel type when they do not hold generator declarations or Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGOs).

Updates to this page

Published 1 August 2012
Last updated 1 August 2018 + show all updates

  1. Methodology updated to reduce double counting of renewable energy.

  2. First published.

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