Britain’s last coal plant will release its last pollutants on Monday before it shuts down and officially ends half a century of coal production in the country. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar factory in Nottinghamshire was the last of its kind Britain’s 2015 Commitment It must close all coal-fired power plants by 2025. Ratcliffe was originally due to close in 2022, but remained open after Russia invaded Ukraine and plunged into the European gas crisis.
The Ratcliffe plant once had 3,000 engineers, but now employs just 170. That group will gather to watch a live broadcast of the plant’s decommissioning, and more than 100 of them are set to work on decommissioning the plant over the next two years. Many of the other workers will take up new jobs at various power stations owned by Raticliffe’s German owner, Uniper, while others will enter training programs to work on other aspects of the industry.
England opened the world’s first coal-fired power station, the Holborn Viaduct in London, in 1882 with the help of Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Light Company. Coal played a major role in England until very recently. This is stated in the report of the energy analytical center Embercoal was responsible for 39 percent of the UK’s energy supply in 2012, but fell to just two percent in 2019. decline in coal production It has been reported that in 2023, the amount of all greenhouse gases used in the UK will double. Between 2012 and 2023, the wind and solar generation also increased from six per cent to 34 per cent of the UK’s energy share. Britain still has a long way to go, but the move made it the first G7 country to phase out all coal-fired power generation.
