{"id":1222,"date":"2015-08-11T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2015-08-11T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:13:30","slug":"the-value-of-uk-electricity-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"The Value of UK Electricity Generation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has a very large energy industry. Electricity is a primary resource.<\/p>\n<p>in 2014 the UK power generators (power stations) produced <strong>335 TeraWatts hours<\/strong>\u00a0of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>335 TeraWatts Hours= <strong>335,000,000 MegaWatts hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now to put a monetary value on this is quite simple. The average price for a delivered megawatt hour is about <strong>\u00a3100 per\u00a0MegaWatt hour.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yes \u00a3100 MW\/h<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus:-<\/p>\n<p>335,000,000 Megawatts x \u00a3100 = <strong>\u00a333,500,000,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is \u00a333,500 million = <strong>\u00a333.5 Billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That is equivalent to <strong>2.23% of UK GDP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has a very large energy industry. Electricity is a primary resource. in 2014 the UK power generators (power stations) produced 335 TeraWatts hours\u00a0of electricity. 335 TeraWatts Hours= 335,000,000 MegaWatts hours Now to put a monetary value on this is quite simple. The average price for a delivered megawatt hour is about \u00a3100 per\u00a0MegaWatt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}