Supplier data

Yorkshire (npower)

The fuel mix for the year 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 is shown below.

Fuel Mix
	Yorkshire (npower)	UK average
coal	42.0%	32.9%
natural gas	42.0%	43.3%
nuclear	8.0%	15.3%
renewable	5.0%	5.9%
other	3.0%	2.5%

CO2 emissions*	0.543	0.460
nuclear waste**	0.0008	0.0015

Yorkshire (npower)

UK Average

*CO2 emissions are in kg/kWh; **nuclear waste relates to high-level waste in g/kWh.

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Other impacts

Coal power plants also emit sulphur dioxide which leads to acid rain, as well as other pollutants.

Note that the figures for carbon dioxide emissions are for emissions directly related to electricity generation and take no account of lifecycle emissions.

For nuclear power in particular there are carbon dioxide emissions related to construction and the mining and processing of the uranium fuel.

The nuclear waste figure does not include intermediate and low-level nuclear waste. Though less radioactive, these lower level wastes are created in much larger volumes, are still dangerous, and represent a disposal problem.