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UK Energy Generation Industry

Understand the UK’s Energy Generation industry, the companies within it and see how UK industry is responding to the challenge of net zero. View company data, sector trends, industry growth, key financial information and download our free sector report today.

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What is Energy Generation?

Energy Generation is the process of generating electricity using a variety of different techniques, methods and technologies.

The Energy Generation industry in the UK includes a wide range of companies, producing or supplying energy. This includes more established methods such as nuclear power and the use of fossil fuels, but also encompasses companies investing in renewables or using greener practices such as solar power and wind energy.

Often the Food Technology sector is associated with the use of technology to drive efficiency and sustainability, particularly within the agricultural and AgriTech industries.

Food Tech companies range from those developing next generation foods and food safety solutions to food delivery and AgriTech businesses.

Energy Generation sector summary

Key information you should know about the Energy Generation sector from our AI-driven platform of over 5 million companies:

Energy Generation has turnover of £106.7bn, meaning it is our 8th largest RTIC, and our 23rd fastest growing sector.
The Energy Generation sector has not received additional investor attention in recent years and the amount of venture capital funding is not increasing as fast as our other emerging economy sectors.
The amount of Innovate UK grants is not increasing as fast in the Energy Generation sector, as our other emerging economy sectors.

4,809

COMPANIES CONSIDERED

£109,651,341,877

TOTAL TURNOVER

96,872

TOTAL EMPLOYEES

£1,547,670,000

TOTAL INVESTMENT FUNDING

£121,279,871

TOTAL INNOVATE UK GRANT FUNDING

3.7%

AVERAGE COMPANY GROWTH PER YEAR

Energy Generation verticals

Our Energy Generation RTIC is made up of 9 individual industry verticals, including verticals such as Bioenergy, Fossil Fuels, Hydrogen. You can find out more about the verticals by buying a report, visualising the sector on our platform, or by downloading the data.

Sector Code Description Records
RTIC0011 Energy Generation 4809 companies
Companies involved in techniques used to generate energy from fossil fuels, nuclear power plants, solar panels, biofuels, wind amongst other sources.
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- Energy Generation: Bioenergy
  Companies that provide energy from the transformation of organic waste.
  629 companies
- Energy Generation: Fossil Fuels
  Companies that use fossil fuels to produce energy, or provide related products or services
  793 companies
- Energy Generation: Hydrogen
  Companies engaging in the production and supply of hydrogen as an energy product. Also, companies providing related tech and services.
  235 companies
- Energy Generation: Hydropower
  Companies providing products and/or services to produce electricity from water courses or tides.
  426 companies
- Energy Generation: Nuclear
  Companies that use nuclear power to produce energy, or provide related products or services
  104 companies
- Energy Generation: Offshore Wind
  Companies using offshore wind to produce electricity and companies engaged in the maintenance of offshore wind facilities.
  799 companies
- Energy Generation: Onshore Wind
  Companies using onshore wind to produce electricity.
  826 companies
- Energy Generation: Renewable Thermal
  Companies creating the tech and infrastructure to harness the thermal energy from the earth.
  757 companies
- Energy Generation: Solar
  Companies engaging in the photovoltaic industry from both a service and technological standpoint.
  1003 companies

Energy Generation industry growth

We estimate that the UK Energy Generation sector could be worth approximately £128bn by 2027, based on the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7%. Below you can see the five year turnover forecast for the RTIC from 2023 to 2027.

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