Fuel Mix Disclosure Data |
supplier |
coal |
natural gas |
nuclear |
renewable |
other |
CO2 |
nuclear waste* |
disclosure year |
British Gas |
13.4 |
65.6 |
13.2 |
6.2 |
1.6 |
0.368 |
0.0012 |
2008 |
Ecotricity |
18.3 |
24.1 |
18.0 |
37.4 |
2.2 |
0.267 |
0.0016 |
2008 |
EDF Energy |
49.0 |
31.0 |
12.0 |
6.0 |
2.0 |
0.569 |
0.0011 |
2008 |
Electricity Plus |
38.0 |
46.0 |
11.0 |
3.0 |
2.0 |
0.519 |
0.0010 |
2008 |
Good Energy |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
0.000 |
0.0000 |
2008 |
Green Energy |
0.0 |
68.0 |
0.0 |
32.0 |
0.0 |
0.129 |
0.0000 |
2008 |
npower/RWE |
38.0 |
46.0 |
11.0 |
3.0 |
2.0 |
0.543 |
0.0015 |
2008 |
Powergen |
25.2 |
35.7 |
24.8 |
11.2 |
3.1 |
0.377 |
0.0020 |
2008 |
Scottish & Southern Energy |
25.0 |
59.1 |
5.5 |
8.9 |
1.5 |
0.489 |
0.0005 |
2008 |
ScottishPower |
50.2 |
41.9 |
0.0 |
7.6 |
0.3 |
0.610 |
0.0000 |
2008 |
UK average |
33.0 |
43.5 |
16.1 |
5.5 |
1.9 |
0.480 |
0.0014 |
2008 |
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CO2 emissions are in kg/kWh; nuclear
waste relates to high-level waste in g/kWh.
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* Some electricity suppliers are wary about telling customers
that they are supplying nuclear power. So, many are supplying the nuclear
power to industrial customers, leaving more coal and gas fired electricity
for use by households. This means that most households that do not have
a green electricity supply are purchasing electricity with high amounts
of greenhouse gases, which is causing global warming.
The main UK domestic electricity suppliers
British Gas (includes Centrica, and Scottish Gas)
Ecotricity
EDF Energy (includes London Energy, Seeboard Energy,
SWEB Energy, and Sainsbury's Energy)
e.on (includes
Amerada, East Midlands Electricity, Eastern Electricity, Midlands Gas,
Norweb Energy, Powergen, Sterling Gas, Tesco Energy, and TXU Energi)
Good Energy
Green Energy
npower/RWE (includes Calortex, Daily Telegraph, Independent
Energy, MEB, Midlands Electricity, National Power, Npower Limited,
Npower Northern Limited, Npower Yorkshire Limited, Npower Direct Limited
and York Gas)
Scottish & Southern Energy (includes Atlantic
Electric and Gas, Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, and SWALEC)
ScottishPower (includes AA, Beacon, Ideal and Lloyds
Ideal)
Electricity Plus (includes Telecom Plus and The
Utility Warehouse)
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Other impacts
Coal power plants also emit sulphur dioxide which leads
to acid rain, as well as other pollutants.
Note that the figures for carbon
dioxide emissions are for emissions directly related to electricity generation
and take no
account of lifecycle emisions.
For nuclear power in particular there are carbon dioxide emissions
related to construction and the mining and processing of the uranium
fuel.
The nuclear waste figure does not include intermediate and low-level nuclear
waste. Though less radioactive, these lower level wastes are created in much
larger
volumes,
are still dangerous, and represent a disposal problem.
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