UK goes more than 100 hours without using coal power for first time in a century
Source: The Independent
UK goes more than 100 hours without using coal power for first time in a century
Britain smashes previous record set over 2019 Easter weekend
Tom Embury-Dennis
1 day ago
Britain has gone more than four days without using coal-fired power to generate its electricity, smashing the previous record set during last months Easter weekend.
By late Monday morning, the National Grid said the UK had gone 122 hours in a row and rising without using coal, the burning of which is one of the worlds biggest contributors to climate change.
It is the first time the nation has been powered for so long without the fossil fuel since the worlds first coal-fired power station for public use was opened in London in 1882.
The country has already gone more than 1,000 hours in total without needing coal in 2019, and this year is on course to smash all previous records.
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