Raw Data for Introduction

Posted by Rachel

This is the raw data that will be incorporated into the first couple of slides for the introduction/background. I have already made charts from some of the data to make it more visually interesting.

Energy consumption in Scotland (2002)

Total: 175 TWh of energy

Split into four categories of use:

1. Domestic
2. Transport - public and private
3. Industry 
4. Services

As our project primarily deals with the production of oil from algae (Oilgae if you will) and biodiesel then I have looked in more detail at the data for domestic and transport, essentially ruling out industry and services as areas which this project could have a notable effect on.

Domestic:

• Accounted for 34% of the total energy consumed in Scotland in 2002. 
• Domestic energy for heating is primarily done by gas.
• Domestic users were the largest consumers of energy in 1990, 2002 and thus we can presume 2010.

Transport:

• Accounted for 29% of consumed energy.
• Principal fuel use: oil.
• The 2001 census (takes into account 2,192,246 households) reports that 43% of households have regular access to 1 car while 22% have regular access to 2 or more cars. So we can estimate that 65% of households own at least one car, meaning that there are approximately (probably more than) 1,424,960 cars on the road in Scotland.

Approximately 1,150TWh of oil is produced in Scotland per annum - most of it is exported but almost 10% is refined in the country. The majority of oil energy products (eg. petroleum) are used for transport although some are utilised in heating.

Information from www.scotland.gov.uk


This will provide the basis of the introduction in terms of data and getting an idea for the energy demand/consumption. I will be presenting the "problem" as a small recap (obviously not in great detail as we all know what we've been doing), moving on to outline the current energy situation in Scotland using the information above and, if required, a small introduction to our solution and algae.