Britain's last coal-fired plants are disappearing fast
After powering the British economy for centuries, coal is a dying breed in the nation’s energy mix.
BY LARS PAULSSON, BLOOMBERG
The combustible sedimentary rock accounted for as much as 40 percent of the electricity generation only six years ago, but that figure dropped to 5 percent last year. By the middle of the next decade, there won’t be any plants left at all as the government plans to go completely coal free.
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