'The end of an era': Britain closes its last ever coal fired power plant in landmark move
Britain will shutter its last ever coal fired power plant on Monday— ending the country's 140 year reliance on the fossil ...
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Consumers Energy offers look inside its last coal-fired power plant before shutdown
Above the deck on the fourth floor of Unit 3 inside Consumer Energy’s J.H. Campbell power plant, a sign proclaims the electricity flowing from the coal-fired beast is a “KEY to Michigan’s ...
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A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo
For six decades, coal has provided for — and polluted — the Navajo Nation. Demolition of a power plant brings mixed emotions.
U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant
Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the ...
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UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
The country's last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967. This marks a major milestone in the country's ambitions to reduce its ...
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As it happened: UK's last coal-fired power station set to close
Staff tell me that's enough for engineers to carry out two more "runs" before coal production on the site ends next week. In the control room at the power station – where no photographs are ...
The Daily Telegraph14d
Why Britain’s last coal power station is closing its doors
On 28 June this year, a freight train snaked into some railway sidings near Nottingham and unloaded the final scheduled consignment of coal ever to be burned in a British power station.
The New York Times15d
Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever’
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal. By Somini Sengupta Britain, the nation that ...
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UK’s last coal-fired power plant to close after more than 100 years
Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is shutting down, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in ...
The Washington Post10d
This country ditched coal. Here’s what the world can learn from it.
The last operating coal power plant in Britain closed this week, ending more than 140 years of coal-fired electricity and proving that major economies can wean themselves off the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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UK becomes the first major economy to stop burning coal for electricity, closing its last power plant
Britain’s last coal-fired power plant will close on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in ...
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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK ...