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What is 'fuel' mix'?

Electricity suppliers are required to provide their customers with information about which fuels are used to generate the electricity they use. This information, which is called the fuel mix, will appear as a summary table with electricity bills. See Power NI Fuel Mix Information for 2020 below.

 

Power NI Fuel Mix Information 2020

 

Electricity supplied has been sourced from the following fuels :

 

% of total

 

Average for Power NI

Average for All Island Market

Coal

0.0

3.0

Natural gas

45.7

35.8

Renewable*

54.3

57.9

Peat

0.0

2.1

Oil

0.0

0.4

Other

0.0

0.8

Total

100

100

Environmental impact

 

 

CO2 emissions

237g/kWh

236g/kWh

For more information on the environmental impact of your electricity supply, visit www.powerni.co.uk

g/kWh = grammes per kilowatt hour. (1kWh = 1 unit of electricity).

*Eco customers are supplied with electricity sourced from 100% renewables.