Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008
URN No: 08/87

The Digest provides essential information for everyone, from economists to environmentalists and from energy suppliers to energy users.
The Digest contains extensive tables, charts and commentary covering all the major aspects of energy, including separate sections on petroleum, gas, coal and electricity. It provides a detailed and comprehensive picture of energy production and use over the last five years, with key series taken back to 1970.
Following the publication of the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2008 on 31 July 2008, a number of errors within the tables have come to light. These have been corrected on the web site’s “Excel” versions of the tables. The Excel package’s “Comments” facility has been used to indicate the cells where changes have been made. The tables concerned are listed in the attached file:
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Chapters
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008: Contents (PDF, 62Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008: Introduction (PDF, 139Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008: Contact list (PDF, 75Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008: Corresponding table numbers (PDF, 47Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 1: Energy (PDF, 255Kb)
Energy tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 2: Solid fuels and derived gases (PDF, 231Kb)
Coal tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 3: Petroleum (PDF, 289Kb)
Oil tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 4: Gas (PDF, 342Kb)
Gas tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 5: Electricity (PDF, 389Kb)
The electricity supply system in Great Britain in 2007 [map, colour version] (PDF, 143Kb)
Electricity tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 6: Combined heat & power (PDF, 216Kb)
Combined heat & power tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 chapter 7: Renewable sources of energy (PDF, 264Kb)
Renewables tables
Annexes:
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex A: Energy and commodity balances, conversion factors and calorific values (PDF, 169Kb)
Calorific values tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex B: Glossary and acronyms (PDF, 100Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex C: Further sources of United Kingdom energy publications (PDF, 101Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex D: Major events in the energy industry (PDF, 190Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex E: Energy and the environment (PDF, 109Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex F: Oil and gas resources (PDF, 75Kb)
Oil tables
Gas tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex G: Foreign trade (PDF, 61Kb)
Foreign trade tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex H: Flow charts (PDF, 179Kb)
- Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex I: Energy balance – net calorific values (PDF, 17Kb)
Total energy tables - Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics 2008 annex J: Heat reconciliation (PDF, 16Kb)
Total energy tables
Long Term Trends:
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