Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average efficiency is of the UK coal-fired power station fleet; and if he will make a statement.
The thermal efficiency of UK coal-fired power stations on a gross calorific value basis was 35.0 per cent in 2016, the latest available data.
The data is published in the Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.10, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes.