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GeoPura Secures £27M Loan to Scale Green Hydrogen Production at Former UK Coal Plant
07 Oct 2025 14:58 GMT
GeoPura burst onto the scene in 2019 and quickly climbed the ranks to become one of the UK’s top green hydrogen producers. Fast-forward to 6 October 2025, and they’ve landed a game-changing £27 million green loan facility to supercharge both their domestic …
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Big Solar Co-op raises over GBP 1 million for UK coal mine project
31 Jul 2025 11:52 GMT
Solar bond offered through impact investing platform provides community energy cooperative with funds to construct 3.5 MW project in Whiteborough, England. Big Solar Co-op plans to use European manufactured and second-life panels. The co-op expects to …
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UK coal use drops to lowest level since Great Fire of 1666
29 Apr 2025 12:23 GMT
… Energy Security & Net Zero, UK coal use fell to just 2 …
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UK Coal Mine Planning Consent Quashed
10 Dec 2024 00:12 GMT
In December 2022, planning permission was granted by the secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ("SoS") to extract coal from a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The project would have been the UK's first new …
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Could the end of UK coal inspire a faster global phase-out?
28 Oct 2024 16:10 GMT
The UK closed its last coal power plant on 30 September, ending the use of coal for electricity in the country that built the world’s first such power station in 1882.
It’s a milestone in the country’s efforts to slow climate change, and a stark difference …
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'I painted the end of UK coal for more than a year'
23 Oct 2024 06:58 GMT
Roy Young was "artist in residence" at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, which closed at the end of September
When artist Roy Young heard about the closure of the UK's last coal-fired power station, he was determined to put brush to canvas to …
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3 steps towards the end of UK coal
11 Oct 2024 16:25 GMT
… Cumbria was withdrawn, the last UK coal power station closed and Port … coal export ban to stop UK coal once and for all.
Digest …
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End of UK coal area and launch of NESO: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week
04 Oct 2024 12:23 GMT
New independent public body has been tasked with overseeing Britain's shift to a clean, cheaper and more resilient energy system.
- by Michael Holder (@michaelholder)
Historic moment for the UK, as the country's last remaining coal-fired power …
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Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘UK Coal’
03 Oct 2024 05:32 GMT
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The uncomfortable truth about the end of UK coal
01 Oct 2024 07:34 GMT
Should we celebrate the end of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Britain’s last coal-fired power station, whose boilers went cold on Monday, bringing to an end 142 years of coal-fired electricity in Britain? Even as recently as 2012, 39 per cent of our electricity came …