Scotland's Carbon Footprint 1998-2020

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Figure 13: The UK provides the majority of energy used, or consumed indirectly, by Scottish consumers and in 2020, energy equal to around 7.4 million tonnes of oil was consumed from the UK.

Scotland’s energy footprint by origin, 2020. Values in thousand tonnes of oil equivalent (KtOe).

Figure 13 above shows the embedded energy use by country of origin in 2020 associated with final consumption in Scotland.

The UK provides the majority of energy used, or consumed indirectly, by Scottish consumers and in 2020, energy equal to around 7.4 million tonnes of oil was consumed from the UK. At the equivalent of around 1.2 million tonnes of oil, the European Union provided the next most substantial source of embedded energy consumed in Scotland.

The data used to construct the energy footprint is conceptually very similar to the carbon footprint. As such, subject to further development, most of the analyses presented for the carbon footprint in this release could be replicated for this energy footprint and presented in future editions of this publication.