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The UK consumes more electricity now than in the 1970s. https://www.statista.com/statistics/550592/uk-electricity-consumption-by-final-users/ https://www.stati
by philipkglass 6y ago
The UK consumes more electricity now than in the 1970s.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/550592/uk-electricity-consumption-by-final-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/550592/uk-electricity-co...
Consumption in 1970: 192 TWh
Consumption in 2019: 295 TWh
- willyt 6y agoI don't know who statista are but their figures seem to be wrong. However I also must have misremembered. So it seems we were both wrong: The UK government says it is similar now (256983 GWh) compared to 1970. (214426 GWh) having peaked in 2003 (342308 GWh) https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-electricity-data https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historic...