David Anderson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Anderson on 2016-05-24.
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.
Andrea Leadsom
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.
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