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It's even nearer dead than that small number implies. Much of that is from keeping the few coal plants idling on standby or tiny load for fast spin up, if the g
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It's even nearer dead than that small number implies. Much of that is from keeping the few coal plants idling on standby or tiny load for fast spin up, if the grid asks, with coal as source of last resort.
Two of the six plants we have left announced last month they wouldn't be bothering going to the 2025 coal elimination date, and will close in 2020. Leaves 4 I think.
Same month the lovely government approved a new deep coal mine in Cumbria. huh?
- solstice 7y agoI mean, you could let the remaining coal miners dig it up but don't allow it to be burned. At the same time work hard to establish new ways of earning money in the communities.
- ben_w 7y agoIt would be nice to think that. The party proposing this policy is the party that closed the coal mines in the first place.