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Energy Trends: UK renewables
Summary
DESNZ published quarterly UK renewables statistics for Q3 2025, showing renewable electricity generation grew 7% year-on-year to reach 54.7% of total generation. The data includes renewable capacity, generation, load factors, and liquid biofuels consumption with quarterly and monthly ROCs data.
Why it matters
Provides key market intelligence for tracking progress toward Clean Power 2030 targets and understanding renewable deployment trends that affect grid planning, capacity requirements, and investment decisions.
Key facts
- •Renewable electricity generation share reached 54.7% in Q3 2025, up 3.6 percentage points year-on-year
- •Renewable generation grew 7% compared to Q3 2024
- •Low carbon share of generation dropped to 67.2%, down 1.4 percentage points due to nuclear outages
- •Fossil fuel generation increased 7% to 29.5% share
- •Data published quarterly on last Thursday of March, June, September, December
- •ROCs data published monthly on second Thursday
- •Data is one quarter in arrears
Areas affected
renewableswholesale marketgrid connectionsgeneratorscapacity market
Related programmes
Clean Power 2030CfDSmart Export Guarantee
Publisher description
Data on the UK’s renewables sector, including capacity, electricity generation and liquid biofuels consumption.
Full extracted text
UK renewable electricity capacity and generation (PDF) An overview of the trends identified for the previous quarter in the UK’s renewables sector, focusing on: renewables electricity generation renewable electricity capacity renewable electricity load factors feed-in tariffs capacity liquid biofuels consumption We publish this document on the last Thursday of each calendar quarter (March, June, September and December). Quarterly data: ET 6.1, ET 6.2 These tables focus on renewable electricity capacity and generation, and liquid biofuels consumption. We publish these quarterly tables on the last Thursday of each calendar quarter (March, June, September and December). The data is a quarter in arrears. Monthly data: ROCs This data relates to certificates and generation associated with the renewables obligation scheme. We publish this monthly table on the second Thursday of each month. Earlier data Previous editions of Energy Trends are available on the Energy Trends collection page. You can request previous editions of the tables by using the email below in Contact us. Contact us If you have questions about these statistics, please email: renewablesstatistics@energysecurity.gov.uk Energy Trends December 2025 PDF , 1.81 MB , 50 pages Renewable electricity capacity and generation (ET 6.1 - quarterly) MS Excel Spreadsheet , 434 KB This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alt.formats@energysecurity.gov.uk . Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. Consumption of liquid biofuels (ET 6.2 - quarterly) MS Excel Spreadsheet , 120 KB This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alt.formats@energysecurity.gov.uk . Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. Energy Trends renewables tables (ODS) ODS , 75.9 KB This file is in an OpenDocument format Renewables obligation: certificates and generation (monthly - Excel) MS Excel Spreadsheet , 956 KB This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alt.formats@energysecurity.gov.uk . Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. Renewables obligation: certificates and generation (monthly - ODS) ODS , 851 KB This file is in an OpenDocument format Statistical Release 18 December 2025 1 Energy Trends UK, July to September 2025 About this release Information on energy production, trade, and consumption in the UK for total energy and by specific fuels. In this release Total energy 2 Solid fuels and derived gases 4 Oil and oil products 6 Gas 9 Electricity 11 Renewables 13 Data tables and special articles 16 Technical information 17 Glossary 18 Related publications 20 Further information 21 Data tables Additional data are available online as part of the Energy Trends series: Total energy Coal and derived gases Oil and oil products Gas Electricity Renewables This publication is based on a snapshot of survey data from energy suppliers. New data are incorporated in line with the revisions policy. Percentage change from Quarter 3 2024, primary energy basis (Mtoe basis) Production Imports Exports Demand Total energy -2.5% -3.3% -2.2% -3.8% Coal -0.8% -32% -48% -46% Primary oil +2.7% -2.3% -0.5% -2.6% Petroleum products -2.0% -0.8% -5.9% -3.7% Gas -1.2% -10% +0.7% -1.7% Electricity -11% +6.8% +27% -11% Total UK energy production in the third quarter of 2025 was at a record low, down 2 per cent on the third quarter last year, driven in the main by a drop in nuclear output due to maintenance outages and refuelling. Total energy production is 28 per cent below the pre-pandemic level recorded in the third quarter of 2019, mainly as a result of continued falls in oil and gas output from the UK’s Continental Shelf. Renewable electricity generation grew 7 per cent on the same period last year, following strong output from wind and solar. As a share of total generation, renewable electricity generation increased to 54.7 per cent, 3.6 percentage points up on the same period last year and just shy of the record share seen in the second quarter of this year. The fall in nuclear o [... truncated]