Official Statistics

Energy use on farms in England

Official statistics in development on annual fuel use, renewable energy sources, and carbon audits in farms in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 21 August 2025
• Last updated: 3 September 2026
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  1. 3 September 2026

     Updated with 2024/25 data.

  2. 31 March 2026

     Publishing a clarification, the red diesel cost is only for red diesel used for vehicles and machinery, and does not include red diesel costs for heating.

  3. 18 March 2026

     Following requests from users, further details on the cost and use of red diesel in farm businesses have been added.

  4. 31 October 2025

     Data was updated on 31 October 2025 following the correction of a data processing error. This comprises the data presented in Figure 3.5, the associated dataset table 3.4 and corresponding key point for “What were the reasons for first installing solar panels in the farm businesses”, as well as dataset table 3.2 for “Distribution of farms that intend to install renewable energy with or without government funding”. The associated machine readable dataset was also updated.

  5. 21 August 2025

     First published.

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Energy use on farms in England 2024/25

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Table 1 - Fuel usage in farms in England 2024/25

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Table 2 - Renewable Energy in farms in England 2024/25

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Tables 3 and 4 - Renewable Energy planning and carbon audits in farms in England 2024/25

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Energy use on farms in England 2024/25 machine readable datasets

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Details

This ‘Energy use on farms in England’ publication provides details on the types and quantities of fuel used by farm businesses, as well as the generation and sale of renewable energy by farm businesses, including plans for the future. This publication also contains details on farm carbon audits, including the most commonly used carbon calculators and the actions farms have taken based on their carbon audits.

A data error was discovered in the red diesel use dataset of the 2023/24 Energy use on farms publication. This inflated values for red diesel used by contractors; dairy farms were the most affected. The underlying data has now been corrected and the 2023/24 figures revised in this publication and the accompanying dataset.