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The energy provider, National Grid, on Twitter confirmed that, on April 21st, Britain went without coal-generated power for its first full day.
Environment watchers can mark off Friday, April 21. In a 24 hour period, confirmed National Grid, electricity demand in Great Britain was supplied without the need for coal generation—that is, without coal fired power stations.
Climate Action, which works in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program, said that, specifically, by 10.50 pm on Friday the UK had not required electricity sourced from coal.
Coal accounted for just 9% of electricity generation in 2016 - down from 23% the year before.
Coal-fired power plants emit almost double the amount of CO2 (a heat trapping gas blamed for global warming) as gas-fired power plants, said Reuters.
So, April 21 is a day to remember as no coal was used to generate electricity. Sources that kept the lights on included natural gas, nuclear, wind, biomass, and imported energy.
An attention-grabbing headline, but the bigger news may be the decline in coal-powered production from 23% of the total in 2015 to 9% of the total in 2016.
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:44PM
What evil watermelons like "Climate Action" won't tell you is the important part of the story. The mainstream media does most of its #FakeNews by quoting people with agendas like these guys and leave out the inconvenient truths. Yes alternate energy can 'work', that was never disputed so is merely a strawman. Look at this chart [ovoenergy.com] and notice that all of the expensive countries are the most invested in green energy. I'm paying about $0.105/KWH in the Southern US while the Blue areas of the U.S. pay $0.20 or more like the UK. Green energy makes the economy suck as everything that uses energy costs more. Global recession that just won't let up got you down? Well now you know one of the big reasons the media will -never- even hint at.
So celebrate away, enjoy throwing resources down a rathole to make greens feel superior to you, just know that there will never be 'green enough' until you die. They won't lead the way and kill themselves of course, they want YOU dead, then they will decide that the Earth can support them and they don't really have to go.