Coal Fired Power Stations
(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of coal burnt in UK coal-fired power stations in each of the last three years was mined in the UK.
This can be estimated by subtracting the amount of steam coal imports (mainly used by coal-fired power stations) by the total amount of coal used in electricity generation. Please see the table below:
| Imports of steam coal (thousand tonnes) | Coal used in generation (thousand tonnes) | UK produced coal used for generation * (thousand tonnes) | Proportion of UK produced coal used for generation % |
2013 | 42,995 | 50,041 | 7,046 | 14.0% |
2014 | 35,294 | 38,400 | 3,106 | 8.0% |
2015 (provisional) | 20,631 | 29,342 | 8,711 | 29.6% |
* This includes stocks from earlier years.
Source:
Energy Trends tables 2.1 and 2.4, available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends.