ENTSOG South-North Corridor GRIP 2017 - Main Report

The graph in Figure 3.10 shows the evolution between 2010 and 2015 of the share of demand used for power generation, as a percentage of the total annual demand, in the South-North Corridor, in the other EU-28 countries and in all of EU-28. This percentage saw a sharp decline in the previous years, and decreased from 26% in 2010 till 18% in 2013 at European level. Starting from 2015, it then registered a trend reversal with an increase to 19.5% of total demand.

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Figure 3.10: Evolution of the share of total demand used for power generation between 2010 and 2015 (Source: ENTSOG data collection based for TYNDP 2017 on information from TSOs, without temperature correction) Figure 3.11 shows the breakdown between the share of demand used for final customers and for power generation in 2015 among the South-North Corridor countries. It can be seen that Italy was the country that used a larger share of its consumption in order to produce electricity (31%), due to the absence of nuclear plants, the relatively low reliance on coal and to the relatively recent building-up of last generation combined- cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants. A slightly lower share (26%) is registered in Belgium and Germany, that can be explained considering that these two countries can also use nuclear energy and/or coal in addition to gas as traditional electricity genera- tion sources. For power generation Luxembourg used a share of about half of that used by the previous countries (13%)  1) , mainly because the percentage of electricity importation, especially from German side covers an important share. France stood at 9% thanks to its great use of nuclear as base load power source, while, for similar reasons, Switzerland is the only country in the Corridor that did not use natural gas for power generation. The average of the other EU countries in 2015 reached 16%.

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Figure 3.11: Breakdown of total demand between the share of demand used for final customers and for power generation in 2015 (Source: ENTSOG data collection based for TYNDP 2017 on information from TSOs, without temperature correction)

 1) This percentage refers to 2015. In 2016 the percentage of electricity generated by gas-fired power plant went close to zero since the only CCGT has been shut-down.

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