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  • The US accounts for 10% of UK gas consumption, with the other 90% being domestic production or imports from Norway.

    Natural gas is usage is split (approximately) between electricity generation (35%), domestic heating (35%), services (13%) and industry (13%) .

    If we lost that US 10% and took it entirely out of electricity generation, we’d lose about 28% of our gas powered generation. Just 28.6% of our electricity was gas powered in the last 12 months. So we’d have an 8% shortfall overall.

    I think we’re scheduled to bring online enough wind generation in the next 12 months alone to counteract that. Between Dogger Bank wind farm and Hinckley Point C nuclear this isn’t a huge problem at least for the UK. We also are on a downward trend of electricity consumption.

    Yes, relative to what they were before US imports are up massively because we needed to switch sources. However we’re becoming more and more energy independent through renewables, not less so.