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Sat, 30 Aug, 2014 12:02:01 AM FTimes Report, August 30  Consumption of hard coal, 1,000 tonnes. Source: Statistics Finland. Consumption of hard coal decreased by 30 per cent in this year’s January to June period compared with the corresponding period of last year.
Its total consumption as a fuel in generation of electricity and heat amounted to around two million tonnes, equivalent to around 50 petajoules in energy content, according to Statistics Finland’s preliminary data.
In January to June this year, consumption of hard coal was 24 per cent lower than the average for the 2000s.
Use of coal diminished in combined electricity production plants by around 60 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.
One coal condensate power plant was also removed from standby mode in the first half. At the end of June 2014, stocks of hard coal totalled some 3.3 million tonnes, or 11 per cent more than that one year earlier, the data show.
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