Electricity Generation: Waste

(asked on 5th January 2018) - 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 energy has been produced from each energy from waste facility currently operating and receiving local authority waste.


This question was answered on 10th January 2018

The Department does not publish data on individual waste facilities. The Department estimates that in 2016 electricity generation from waste was 5,483GWh, with heat generation of 213.3 thousand tonnes of oil equivalent (ktoe). [1]

[1] Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2017, Tables 6.4 and 6.6

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