*No values for coal after 2025. **No values for battery storage after 2040.
Supplementary notes
Projected data is taken from the reference scenario, which is based on central estimates of economic growth and fossil fuel prices and contains all agreed policies where decisions on policy design are sufficiently advanced to allow robust estimates of impact (i.e. including 'planned' policies).
In 2023, renewables were the largest source of major power producers' electricity generation in the United Kingdom, at *** terawatt-hours. This figure is expected to more than double by 2050, reaching *** terawatt-hours. Electricity generation from natural gas is forecast to increase from ** to ** terawatt-hours in the same period.
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