ELECTRICITY: NORTH EAST
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much electricity was used by industrial users in the North East in each year since 1997. [185138]
Gregory Barker, Minister of State for Climate Change: Data for sub-national electricity use are available from 2005 to 2012 and are split by sector (domestic and non-domestic) only. Data prior to 2005 are not available.
Data for non-domestic electricity consumption in the North East are shown as follows. The published data are available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consu...
| Non-domestic electricity consumption in the north east between 2005 and 2012 | |
| Non-domestic electricity consumption in the north east (GWh) | |
| 2005 | 9,348.8 |
| 2006 | 9,314.7 |
| 2007 | 8,912.3 |
| 2008 | 8,537.4 |
| 2009 | 7,792.9 |
| 2010 | 7,892.3 |
| 2011 | 7,471.9 |
| 2012 | 16,435.6 |
| 1 Data for 2012 are provisional | |
Estimates have been produced based on information from the Gemserv database on the location of electricity meters, which are used to produce the Departments sub-national electricity consumption statistics.