Electricity Generation: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(asked on 20th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what records his Department made of emission changes in UK energy generation in each of the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 2nd May 2018

The Department does not estimate emission changes on a monthly basis. Provisional carbon dioxide emissions estimates, published in March, show quarterly estimates of emissions from energy supply for 2017 as follows:

2017 quarter:

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Carbon dioxide emissions from energy supply (Mt)

110.6

107.6

106.2

105.0

Source: Provisional UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics 2017

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-2017

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