Should we celebrate the end of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Britain’s last coal-fired power station, whose boilers went cold on Monday, bringing to an end 142 years of coal-fired electricity in Britain? Even as recently as 2012, 39 per cent of our electricity came from coal.
The news of the power station’s demise was, predictably enough, received with great enthusiasm by the climate lobby, who asserted that renewables had displaced this filthy form of generation.
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