Production capacity in hard coal mining sector was 96 million tons a year at the end of 2006. Hard coal production in Poland constitutes over 50% of the Union’s production.
Poland is the biggest producer of hard coal in the European Union. The significant majority of coal produced in Poland is power coal, what is shown in the below table.
Hard coal production (millions of tons)
|
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
|
|
altogether |
114.2 |
108.8 |
101.2 |
101.8 |
99.9 |
100.4 |
99.3 |
97.1 |
94,4 |
|
including power coal |
92.5 |
88.8 |
84.0 |
84.8 |
84.2 |
84.3 |
82.7 |
83.0 |
79,8 |
|
Including coking coal |
21.7 |
20.0 |
17.2 |
17.0 |
15.7 |
16.1 |
16.5 |
14.0 |
14,6 |
In 2006 sell of hard coal generally decreased, in comparison with the previous years, to the level of 93.4 million tons (0.9% in comparison to 2005). The amounts of sell according to its main country receivers in 2003-2006 were as follows:
|
Sell [ thousand tons ] |
|||||
|
2003y. |
2004y. |
2005y. |
2006y. |
||
|
Sell altogether |
98 525,7 |
98 851,1 |
94 257,1 |
93 528,8 |
|
|
Incl. |
- export to EU and beyond |
20 023,6 |
20 791,6 |
19 549,8 |
15 770,8 |
|
- domestic |
78 502,1 |
78 059,5 |
74 707,3 |
77 758,0 |
|
|
Incl. |
- technical power engineering |
36 215,0 |
37 792,3 |
39 741,9 |
41 388,1 |
|
- industrial power engineering |
832,5 |
601,5 |
1 386,7 |
1 139,3 |
|
|
- industrial and municipal heat-generating plants |
2 045,1 |
4 547,4 |
4 884,6 |
4 720,8 |
|
|
- other industrial receivers |
2 055,7 |
1 884,9 |
1 269,0 |
1 025,1 |
|
|
- coking plants |
13 367,2 |
13 129,8 |
10 649,8 |
11 138,7 |
|
|
- other domestic receivers |
23 986,6 |
20 103,6 |
16 775,3 |
18 094,0 |
