Scotland: enewable electricity generation 2019

The vast majority of renewable electricity produced in Scotland was from wind energy, totaling 22.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2019. By comparison, solar photovoltaic (PV) energy had accounted for 331.6 gigawatt hours of electricity that year.

Electricity generation from renewables in Scotland from 2016 to 2019, by source (in gigawatt hours)

Characteristic	2016	2017	2018	2019
Wind*	12,415.3	17,213.5	19,375	22,484.1
Hydro	4,938.8	5,380.5	5,041.5	5,406.6
Other bioenergy**	1,407	1,712.6	1,664.3	2,019.5
Landfill gas	492.8	445.5	422.1	412.2
Solar PV	243.2	278	309.9	331.6
Sewage gas	32	36	35.1	28.6
Wave and tidal	0	4.2	9.3	14

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Release date

September 2020

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Region

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Survey time period

2016 to 2019

Supplementary notes

* According to the source, wind offshore is allocated to regions/countries according to where the cabling comes ashore.
** Includes bioenergy sources co-fired with fossil fuels.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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