Figures do not include energy use or losses from final energy production.
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).
The demand for electricity net imports in the United Kingdom is forecast to oscillate, from 2022 to 2040 and reach three million metric tons of oil equivalent in the latter. The UK's consumption of electricity in the UK is forecast to be grow up to 32.2 million tons of oil equivalent by 2040.
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