Electricity Generation: Waste
(asked on 22nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much electricity was generated by incineration in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and how much CO2 or CO2e, CO2 equivalent, was emitted by incinerators in each of those years.
Table 6.4 in the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES) [i] shows electricity generation from renewable sources. Figures for generation from waste in 2015 and 2016 are shown below:
Generation (GWh)
| 2015 | 2016 |
Biodegradable energy from waste (1) | 2,585 | 2,741 |
Non-biodegradable wastes (2) | 2,586 | 2,742 |
Total waste | 5,171 | 5,482 |
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(1) Biodegradable part only. |
(2) Non-biodegradable part of municipal solid waste plus waste tyres, hospital waste and general industrial waste. |
The latest greenhouse gas emissions inventory, published in February 2017, estimates that emissions from incineration plants were 3.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2015. Figures for 2016 will be published in February 2018.