Coal
(asked on 2nd July 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, what the demand for coal was in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
The table below gives the demand for coal from 2010 - 2017:
| UK coal demand (thousand tonnes) (1) |
2010 | 51,324 |
2011 | 51,507 |
2012 | 64,042 |
2013 | 60,206 |
2014 | 48,295 |
2015 | 37,451 |
2016 | 17,745 |
2017 | 14,183 |
(1) Includes coal used for electricity generation, heat generation, coke manufacture, blast furnaces, patent fuel manufacture, energy used in coal extraction and final consumption by industry, transport, domestic and other users.
Source: Energy Trends table 2.1 June 2018 available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends