Energy Statistics for Scotland - Q2 2025

Progress Towards Energy Targets

Overall Renewable Energy Target

One of the headline targets in Scotland's Energy Strategy is for the equivalent of 50% of the energy for Scotland's heat, transport and electricity use to come from renewable sources. This target presents Scotland’s renewable energy production as a percentage of Scotland’s energy consumption.

In 2023, Scotland generated the equivalent of 29.5% of total final energy consumption from renewable sources. This is a 0.1 percentage point decrease compared to 2022 due to the drop in the amount of electricity generated from renewable sources in 2023 compared to 2022 (Figure 5).

Figure 5:

Energy productivity

Energy productivity presents the value generated by Scotland’s products and services for every unit of energy consumed. The target for 2030 is expressed as a 30% increase from the 2015 baseline.

In 2023, there has been a 15.1% increase in energy productivity from the 2015 baseline. This is due to Scotland’s gross value added (GVA) increasing from £131 bn to £181 bn between 2015 and 2023 and total final energy consumption reducing from 149,026 GWh to 135,574 GWh over the same period (Figure 6).

Figure 6: 

Sources:

Sub-national total final energy consumption statistics: 2005 to 2023 (published 31st July 2025)

Energy Trends: December 2024, special feature articles - Electricity generation and supply in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, 2019 to 2023 (published 19th December 2024)

GDP Quarterly National Accounts: 2025 Quarter 1 (January to March) (published 30th July 2025)