Britain goes a full day without coal power for first time since industrial revolution

[Morgen]

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[QUOTE]Britain went a full day without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, the National Grid says.
The energy provider said Friday's lack of coal usage was a "watershed" moment.
Britain's longest continuous energy period without coal until now was 19 hours - first achieved last May, and again on Thursday.
The government plans to phase out Britain's last plants by 2025 in order to cut carbon emissions.
Friday is thought to be the first time the nation has not used coal to generate electricity since the world's first centralised public coal-fired generator opened in 1882, at Holborn Viaduct in London.
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The last deep coal mine in the UK, Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in December 2015, bringing to an end centuries of deep coal mining in Britain.
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You can thank CC gas for that.

[Sims_doc]

I wonder how long till they'll decentralize the grid completely?

[Morgen]

[QUOTE=download;52135357]You can thank CC gas for that.[/QUOTE]

For the most part, yeah. However throughout parts of the last week zero emission sources outpaced CCGTs quite often.

[GordonZombie]

It's a start, though it doesn't need to be said that we've got a long way to go yet.

[Jon27]

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;52139789]It's a start, though it doesn't need to be said that we've got a long way to go yet.[/QUOTE]

Quite. Given the demand spike from EVs and increasing rail electrification, plus the generally growing capacitive load from beefier mobile devices, the load on the grid is going to just keep going up. And the base load stations to compensate for that are horribly delayed and bungled like most British engineering projects.

[DogGunn]

I actually wonder if they're going to have to fire up older plants as more and more people move to EVs. That power has to come from somewhere.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

[QUOTE=DogGunn;52143827]I actually wonder if they're going to have to fire up older plants as more and more people move to EVs. That power has to come from somewhere.[/QUOTE]

[URL="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/publication-of-the-nuclear-industrial-strategy"]The UK govt is calling for 12 new reactor sites by 2030, equating to about 16GWe in power.[/URL]

Hopefully they pull through on this, and with the weaning off coal, I think they might just hold their commitment.

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[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;52143862][URL="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/publication-of-the-nuclear-industrial-strategy"]The UK govt is calling for 12 new reactor sites by 2030, equating to about 16GWe in power.[/URL]

Hopefully they pull through on this, and with the weaning off coal, I think they might just hold their commitment.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately they've shot themselves in the foot by starting with Avera's EPR. Talk about a shitty reactor.

They should just declare they will set a fixed reactor site licensing fee (a few hundred millions per site instead of per reactor to encourage SMRs) and have fixed time limits to approve reactors (say 6 months).