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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much coal is required to produce (a) one KWh of electricity in a UK coal-fired power station ( b) one tonne of cement and (c) one tonne of steel; and if he will make a statement.

Regarding the coal required to produce a) electricity, b) cement, and c) steel:

a) In 2016 coal power stations in the UK used 0.4 kg of steam coal per kWh of electricity.

(Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) tables 5.1 and 5.3.)

b) We do not hold data at a sufficient level of disaggregation to estimate the steam coal required to produce one tonne of cement. However, the World Coal Association reports that the production of one tonne of cement requires around 200 kg of coal.

(Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/coal-cement)

c) We do not hold data at a sufficient level of disaggregation to estimate the coal required to produce one tonne of steel. However, the World Coal Association reports that the production of steel requires around 770 kg of coking coal through the Basic Oxygen Furnace production route.

(Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/how-steel-produced)