Energy Consumption

Energy forms a key part of our everyday lives. We need energy to switch on our lights, drive our cars,
make the products we use and keep warm in winter in our homes and workplaces. As our economy
grows, demand for energy increases as the number of appliances we own increases and we demand
more functionality from new products. We need good quality statistics to understand the underlying
trends in energy consumption since our energy use has a big impact on our environment.
This post looks at energy consumption and how it has changed over the last 30 years, with a
focus on changes over the last ten years. It considers some of the drivers that have influenced energy
consumption, updating some of the data that were published in Energy Paper 66, ‘Energy
Consumption in the United Kingdom’ in 1997
This post provides data on energy consumption patterns. It contains
data that are published in the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics alongside information from other
organisations that help us to understand some of the more detailed trends within the totals. Some of
the data contained in this post are analyses that have been carried out by the DTI and
methodological notes detailing how these calculations were made can be found in the
methodological annex.
1: Overall energy consumption
2: Transport energy consumption
3: Domestic energy consumption
4: Industrial energy consumption
5: Service sector energy consumption