ABSTRACT
Stock needed to be taken of what had been achieved during the summer. There were two main features to the CEGB response to the coal supply emergency. First the establishment of a road coal flow that, together with what was being forced through the railway system, gave total deliveries of about 500 000 tonnes of coal a week. Second, the establishment of oil-based generation, which had reached a burn of about 350 000 tonnes a week, well up to the optimistic forecasts of our earlier contingency planning and saving 600 000 tonnes of coal burn. The sum of coal deliveries and the coal equivalent of oil burn at 1 100 000 tonnes compared with a winter burn of two million tonnes a week. There was still a big shortfall. What else was it possible to do?
