On Feb 10, 12:54*pm, The Other Mike
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:30:14 -0000, "David WE Roberts"

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I started out trying to find where the coal for the UK power stations came
from.
http://www.edfenergy.com/about-us/en...rmal-power-gen...
suggests around 50% *comes from abroad.

Quite easily. You only need to see how much is produced in the UK.
"1.7 million tonnes of coal a year in 2009" claimed by UK coal, the
UK's largest producer. *Drax burns around 8 million tonnes a year, 4GW
max output, load factor is in the mid 80%

That's surface mining. The 2011 report claims total production FY 2010
was 7.2 million tonnes, first half FY2011 was 4.1million.
Still only just about enough for Drax, though...

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Mike