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# Long description

This figure shows UK primary and final energy use in a stacked bar form. There are four horizontal bars, one above the other. The top bar is labelled at the left ‘Primary energy’. The lower three bars are labelled together as ‘Final energy’ and individually as being broken down ‘by fuel’, ‘by sector’ and ‘by end use’. There is an x-axis at the bottom which is marked in Petajoules with a scale running from zero to 9000.

The top bar, primary energy, contains the following items: coal, shown in black, about 360 petajoules; oil, shown in orange, about 2870 petajoules; gas, shown in blue-green, about 3140 petajoules; nuclear heat, shown in purple, about 660 petajoules; and renewables, shown in green, about 1000 petajoules. The total is just over 8010 petajoules.

The second bar, final energy broken down by fuel, contains the following items: solid fuel, shown in black, about 80 petajoules; liquid fuels, shown in orange, about 2660 petajoules; gas, shown in blue-green, about 1830 petajoules; electricity, shown in blue, about 1080 petajoules; bioenergy and heat, about 320 petajoules. This gives a total of nearly 6000 petajoules. There is a further section of the bar marked losses in conversion and delivery, shown in light grey of about 2040 petajoules which makes up a total of just over 8010 petajoules, equal to that in the top primary energy bar.

The third bar, final energy broken down by sector, contains the following items: domestic, shown in blue, 1730 petajoules; services, shown in blue-green, about 910 petajoules; transport, shown in orange, about 2390 petajoules; and industry, shown in pink, about 950 petajoules. The total is nearly 6000 petajoules, identical to that for the second bar.

The fourth bar, final energy broken down by end use, contains the following items: space and water heating drying, shown in yellow, about 2420 petajoules; high temperature heat, shown in dark red, about 150 petajoules; cooking, shown in light purple, about 140 petajoules; transport, shown in orange, about 2440 petajoules; lights and appliances, shown in light yellow, about 690 petajoules; and industrial machinery, shown in dark brown, about 150 petajoules. The total is nearly 6000 petajoules, identical to that for the second and third bars.