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Fossil Fuelled Power Stations

Question for Department for Energy and Climate Change

UIN 19965, tabled on 14 December 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what percentage contribution she expects (a) coal-fired power stations and (b) West Burton and Cottam power stations to make to UK energy supply in each of the next 10 years.

Answered on

17 December 2015

In DECC’s most recent reference scenario, the proportion of electricity produced in the UK (gross total electricity supplied) which will be generated by unabated coal-fired power stations over the next ten years is as follows:


  • 2016 24%
  • 2017 17%
  • 2018 17%
  • 2019 17%
  • 2020 14%
  • 2021 9%
  • 2022 7%
  • 2023 3%
  • 2024 2%
  • 2025 2%


This excludes electricity supplied from other countries via interconnectors.


The above data is taken from the reference scenario in Annex J of DECC’s 2015 Energy and Emissions Projections (calculated on 22nd October 2015).

This and other scenarios with differing economic growth and fossil fuel prices are available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015.


With regards to part (b) of this question, we do not publish projections for individual power stations.



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Department for Energy and Climate Change