§ Lord Mason of Barnsleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the tonnage of coal equivalent in the annual import of electricity from France in each of the past five years. [HL1516]
§ Lord Sainsbury of TurvilleInformation on electricity imports from France are routinely published in the annual digest of United Kingdom energy statistics. Annual figures for the past five years are reproduced below expressed in the units requested:
Million tonnes of coal equivalent1 1998 5.0 1999 5.6 2000 5.5 2001 4.1 2002(p) 3.5 180WA
G.5 Imports and exports of solid fuel Thousand tonnes Imports1 Exports 1997 Steam coal Coking coal Anthracite Other solid fuel Steam coal Coking coal Anthracite Other solid fuel European Union Austria — — — — 10 — — — Belgium/Luxembourg 7 — 38 9 13 — 75 2 Denmark — — — — — — 2 1 Finland — — — — — — — 22 France 3 — 6 14 101 — 59 30 Germany 3 — 83 16 133 — 19 — Irish Republic 50 — 14 1 317 —. 137 7 Italy — — — — 3 — 1 12 Netherlands2 66 — 117 15 45 — 6 2 Spain — — — 6 31 — 11 — Sweden — — — 4 6 1 5 43 Total European Union 129 — 258 65 659 1 314 119 Australia 505 3,857 — 1 — — — — Canada — 1,632 — 18 — — — — Colombia 2,763 — 47 — — — — — Indonesia 78 — 6 — — — — — Norway 100 — 2 1 64 — 91 221 People's Republic of China 3 — 75 616 — — — — Poland 532 51 117 24 — — — — Republic of South Africa 2,262 13 197 3 — — — — Russia — — 36 68 — — — — 1 This is the amount of coal needed to generate the amount of electricity equivalent to imports from France assuming a thermal efficiency equivalent to the average for UK coal-fired generating stations.
(p) Provisional.