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South-North Corridor GRIP 2017
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.
0
30
25
20
15
10
5
%
% of total annual demand for power generation
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
SNC Region
Rest of EU-28
Total
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%.
0
60
50
40
30
20
10
70
80
90
100
%
IT
BE
DE
LU
FR
CH
Rest of
EU-28
% of total annual demand (2015)
Power generation
Final demand (residential, commercial, industrial and transportation)
69
31
74
26
74
26
87
13
84
16
91
9
100
0
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.