{"id":24014,"date":"2024-09-30T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=24014"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T09:55:37","slug":"end-of-an-era-uk-stops-burning-coal-for-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/end-of-an-era-uk-stops-burning-coal-for-power\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: UK stops burning coal for power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom has officially closed down, book-ending the nearly 150-year history of British coal power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The plan to decommission Ratcliffe-on-Soar station came after the then-Conservative government announced in 2015 that it intended to shut all UK coal-fired power stations by 2025 to reduce carbon emissions, reported ABC.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowAuto__c1_IL ContentAlignment_floatRight__nfR_t RelatedCard_relatedCard__4Im5s interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU interactive_hoverContext__LDUDX interactive_defaults__AKxUU\" data-component=\"RelatedCard\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/104399838\">\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The UK adopts ambitious emissions targets, making it the first major economy aiming to end its contribution to global warming by 2050.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The local government\u00a0began negotiating a plan in 2021\u00a0to redevelop the site and announced it in 2023. The station&#8217;s German owner, Uniper, later\u00a0confirmed that all four of the station&#8217;s units would close\u00a0by the end of September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station made its last energy delivery at the start of the British summer, supplying 500,000 homes for eight hours using 1,650 tones of coal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Uniper statement to the ABC clarified the station had been &#8220;operating as normal&#8221; until its closure, despite making no deliveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">After closing, Ratcliffe-on-Soar is set to be dismantled &#8220;by the end of the decade&#8221;, according to Uniper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In its place will be a new development \u2014 a &#8220;carbon-free technology and energy hub&#8221;, the company says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The move makes the UK the first of the G7 nations to go entirely without coal-powered electricity, and is a symbolic step towards the country&#8217;s ambition to decarbonize electricity by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Italy plans rid itself of its last coal-fired power stations by next year, with France following suit in 2027, Canada in 2030 and Germany in 2038.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom has officially closed down, book-ending the nearly 150-year history of British coal power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,981,982,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-economy","category-international","category-environment","category-headline"],"views":78,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24029,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions\/24029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}