"Figure 7: Households remain the highest user of fossil fuels in the UK","" "Fossil fuel energy usage for the four highest users in the UK, 1990 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Industry aggregations are based on the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007. Households include “consumer expenditure” and “activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods and services – producing activities of households for own use” (for example, employing a cleaner and growing vegetables for your own consumption). The electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply sector is referred to as the energy supply sector. The transport and storage sector is referred to as the transport sector. 2. Coal, natural gas and fuels derived from crude oil (for example petrol and diesel) are called fossil fuels because they have been formed over long periods of time from ancient organic matter." "Unit","Energy consumption in millions of tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe)" "","" "Year","Manufacturing","Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply","Transport and storage","Households" "1990","44","56","22","54" "1991","45","55","22","57" "1992","43","52","23","57" "1993","43","50","23","58" "1994","43","50","24","57" "1995","43","51","24","55" "1996","44","52","26","61" "1997","43","49","27","58" "1998","42","51","28","59" "1999","43","51","28","59" "2000","43","55","29","60" "2001","41","57","30","61" "2002","38","56","30","61" "2003","39","59","31","61" "2004","39","59","33","63" "2005","39","59","34","61" "2006","38","61","31","60" "2007","37","62","31","58" "2008","35","61","31","58" "2009","30","54","28","57" "2010","31","57","28","60" "2011","30","51","29","52" "2012","28","51","27","55" "2013","29","48","26","55" "2014","28","42","28","50" "2015","27","36","28","51" "2016","26","33","29","52" "2017","26","29","27","51" "2018","25","27","29","53" "2019","24","24","27","52"