Metered electricity consumption by stand-alone EV charge points increased by 42% from 33 GWh in 2024 to 47 GWh in 2025. From 2016 to 2018, electricity consumption by stand-alone charge points was below half a gigawatt hour. In 2019, it was one GWh. This amount increased to 4 GWh in 2020 and to 7 GWh in 2021. The term stand-alone is being used here to indicate that the Meter Point Reference Number (MPRN) is not being used for other purposes such as office or residential heating and lighting. The electricity consumption for charging EVs cannot be identified for meters with mixed use.
| Stand-Alone EV Charge Points | |
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 47 |
For additional information please see Background Notes.
A dedicated release on Data Centres Metered Electricity Consumption 2025 is available for further reading. It is a subset of this work that focuses solely on the Data Centres – where a 518% increase from 2015 can be observed, 10% since previous year, totalling 7,663 GWh in 2025 and accounting for 23% of all national metered electricity consumption.
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