Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices publications are published today 27 September 2012 by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Energy Trends covers statistics on energy production and consumption, in total and by fuel, and provides an analysis of the year on year changes, and now includes a section on renewables.
Quarterly Energy Prices covers prices to domestic and industrial consumers, prices of oil products and comparisons of international fuel prices.
The main points for the second quarter of 2012 are:
For the period July to December 2011, prices for industrial electricity consumers, including taxes, were above the EU15 median for medium, large and extra-large consumers, but below the median for small consumers. Prices for industrial gas consumers were the lowest in the EU15 for all consumers.
Due to a delay in publication of the data by Eurostat, DECC does not have international comparisons for first 6 months of 2012. DECC plans to publish data for January to June 2012 on the DECC web site at the end of October, subject to Eurostat’s publication schedule.
The September 2012 edition of Energy Trends also includes articles on:
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Press release, September 27, 2012; Image: DONG Energy