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Our coal-free months aren't as impressive as they seem

10 June 2020

10:41 PM

10 June 2020

10:41 PM

At midnight last night Britain passed a milestone: it was two months since a coal plant anywhere in the country fed any electricity into the national grid. You have to go back to the 1880s for the last time this occurred – to 1882, to be precise, when a single coal-fired power station was opened in Holborn to feed the street lights.

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