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Britain Is Cutting The Cord On Coal Burning Power Plants

September 21, 2017 by Editorial

“The Drax Power Station and the endless trains of railroad wagons feeding it with fuel from coastal ports, is suddenly a relic of the past. In one of the greatest and fastest energy turnarounds in the developed world, the country that brought the world the industrial revolution – a revolution founded and sustained by burning coal – has cut the cord.

King Coal is, almost overnight, being banished from Britain.

When Drax opened for business in 1974, Britain got 80 percent of its electricity from burning coal. As recently as five years ago, the figure was 40 percent. But last year, it was 9 percent, and this summer coal supplied less than 2 percent of Britain’s electricity. On April 21, 2017, for the first time since its inception, the British power grid went 24 hours without coal.”

Yale Environment 360 is an amazing resource and the individuals writing for it are truly talented, read the full story – In a Stunning Turnaround Britain Moves to End the Burning of Coal

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Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: Climate Change, Coal, Environment, Europe, Fossil Fuels, United Kingdom

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