The last coal-fired power station in the UK will close this month, ending 140 years of using the fuel to generate electricity.
The world’s first coal-fired power plant was built in London in 1882, and Great Britain will become the first country from the Group of Seven Most Developed Economies (G7) to eliminate coal from electricity production, writes the Semafor portal.
The Nottinghamshire plant received its last shipment of fuel in July and its boilers, which reach temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius during operation, are now cold.
The process of leaving coal in the UK has been rapid. In 1990, coal was still the source of most electricity in the country, but it was gradually replaced by gas and renewable energy sources.
Each of those two sources now provides about a third of the country’s electricity, with the rest produced from nuclear and bioenergy.
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