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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… Cumbria was withdrawn, the last UK coal power station closed and Port … coal export ban to stop UK coal once and for all.
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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 …
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What's right: End to UK coal energy
01 Oct 2024 08:39 GMT
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Last UK coal power plant shuts, largest steelworks closes
30 Sep 2024 22:52 GMT
LONDON: The UK’s last coal-fired power station officially closed its doors on Monday, making Britain the first G7 country to end its reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity. The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a power plant that has dominated the …