christineburns

@christineburns@mastodon.green

Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.

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Britain’s last coal fired power station has received its last delivery of coal in anticipation of closure at the end of September. As we look ahead to that historic milestone it is fascinating to look back at how quickly coal has departed the scene. Ten years ago it was still the dominant source of electrical power. More efficient gas burning power squeezed it out, with just over half the greenhouse gas emissions. Now, already, gas burning is being squeezed out too.

Stacked bar chart of electricity sources from 2012 to Jun 2024. Those sources are nuclear, biomass, wind, solar, large hydro, coal, gas and imports. Until 2014 coal was the largest component but the volume shrinks rapidly because of an increase in the volume of gas fired generation. By 2019 coal was a mere 1-2%. Over the decade wind and solar have grown and, with falling overall demand, the need for gas has also started to fall.

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