David Anderson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Anderson on 2016-05-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of coal produced and imported into the UK is used for (a) electricity generation, (b) steel production, (c) cement manufacture, (d) domestic uses, (e) carbon fibre goods, (f) liquid fuel manufacture, (g) mobile phone components and (h) heritage railways in the latest year for which figures are available.
Andrea Leadsom
The table below gives the proportion of coal produced and imported into the UK by sector for 2014. DECC only produces industry consumption data for the main industrial sectors. Therefore, data is not broken down specifically for cement manufacture, carbon fibre goods, liquid fuel manufacture and mobile phone components. For industry the table shows the two largest consumers and iron and steel.
|
Thousand Tonnes |
Proportion % |
|
|
Total Demand |
48,500 |
|
|
Transformation |
45,665 |
94.1% |
|
Of which: Electricity Generation |
38,400 |
79.2% |
|
Industry |
2,240 |
4.6% |
|
Of which : Mineral Products |
1173 |
2.4% |
|
Pulp, paper, printing, etc |
136 |
0.2% |
|
Iron and Steel |
54 |
0.1% |
|
Heritage railways |
13 |
0.03% |
|
Domestic |
547 |
1.1% |
|
*Other |
35 |
0.1% |
*includes energy industry use, public administration, commercial and miscellaneous.
Source:
DUKES table 2.4 available at:
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