UK to pass 1,000 hours without coal as energy shift accelerates

[Sonic Fan]

UK to pass 1,000 hours without coal as energy shift accelerates ..

Britain will soon have been powered for more than a thousand hours without coal this year, in a new milestone underscoring how the polluting fuel’s decline is accelerating. The UK’s last eight coal power plants staged a brief revival when the “beast from the east” pushed up gas prices earlier this year, causing coal plants to fire up. However, the blip proved short-lived and immaterial, figures compiled by MyGridGB show.

The country is expected to pass the threshold of 1,000 coal-free hours before the weekend is out and possibly as early as Thursday night. The pace of coal power’s demise is speeding up. Throughout the whole of 2017 there were 624 coal-free hours, up from 210 hours in 2016. The fall of coal power has been swift. In 2012 it supplied two fifths of electricity – this year so far it has provided less than 6%.

[Saint Furrybutt]

Good, Coal is increase irrelevant fossil fuel to every country (except for delusional corrupted right-wing ones).

[DiscoInferno]

boy are our faces going to be red when the sun dies for no reason tomorrow and all the nuclear plants explode and all that investing in coal the us has done pays off

[Curls]

Make it 100 years next