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Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
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Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
Scientific American: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017

Quote:According to data from the U.K. government, coal-fired power plants only supplied 2% of electricity in the United Kingdom during the first six months of 2017. This is a stark contrast to just five years ago, where coal supplied about 40% of the U.K.’s electricity needs each year. At the same time, renewables have quickly ramped up and now supply a quarter of electricity in the country.

As previously discussed here on Plugged In, Scotland has already gone "coal-free" after more than a century, shuttering its last coal-fired power plant in the spring of 2016. This closure was a significant step toward Scotland’s goal of supplying 100% of its electricity demand using renewables by 2020.

While coal power is still operating elsewhere in the United Kingdom it is supplying so little power at times that in National Grid announced on April 21, 2017, that the United Kingdom had gone without electricity from this fossil fuel for the first time since 1882. It was in this year that Thomas Edison opened the country’s first coal-fired power plant at Holborn in London.
Even starker numbers appear when looking at coal-mining in the United Kingdom where just 10 active coal mines are in operation, down from more than 1,000 in the 1960s. Once a “bedrock of the economy”, coal has quickly declined in the U.K. as the country moves to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and tackle its air pollution challenges.

An article comes out every goddamn day proving that the U.S. should be investing in renewable energies. But Trump needs them votes from coal country, so we're going to be years behind economically.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
I can remember when I got a call from a business wanting me to vote pro coal, and I was like "We still use coal?". I honestly thought we had gone past that by now, but apparently not.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
Their gonna have to change A Christmas Carol.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
(November 10, 2017 at 2:38 pm)Aegon Wrote: Scientific American: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017

Quote:According to data from the U.K. government, coal-fired power plants only supplied 2% of electricity in the United Kingdom during the first six months of 2017. This is a stark contrast to just five years ago, where coal supplied about 40% of the U.K.’s electricity needs each year. At the same time, renewables have quickly ramped up and now supply a quarter of electricity in the country.

As previously discussed here on Plugged In, Scotland has already gone "coal-free" after more than a century, shuttering its last coal-fired power plant in the spring of 2016. This closure was a significant step toward Scotland’s goal of supplying 100% of its electricity demand using renewables by 2020.

While coal power is still operating elsewhere in the United Kingdom it is supplying so little power at times that in National Grid announced on April 21, 2017, that the United Kingdom had gone without electricity from this fossil fuel for the first time since 1882. It was in this year that Thomas Edison opened the country’s first coal-fired power plant at Holborn in London.
Even starker numbers appear when looking at coal-mining in the United Kingdom where just 10 active coal mines are in operation, down from more than 1,000 in the 1960s. Once a “bedrock of the economy”, coal has quickly declined in the U.K. as the country moves to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and tackle its air pollution challenges.

An article comes out every goddamn day proving that the U.S. should be investing in renewable energies. But Trump needs them votes from coal country, so we're going to be years behind economically.

The only problem with the UK's energy problem is that they are shifting to natural gas and wood (which is much more ecologically damaging than coal), and even worse when their electricity security gets worst, really dirty diesel generators.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
(November 10, 2017 at 3:52 pm)Wololo Wrote:
(November 10, 2017 at 2:38 pm)Aegon Wrote: Scientific American: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017


An article comes out every goddamn day proving that the U.S. should be investing in renewable energies. But Trump needs them votes from coal country, so we're going to be years behind economically.

The only problem with the UK's energy problem is that they are shifting to natural gas and wood (which is much more ecologically damaging than coal), and even worse when their electricity security gets worst, really dirty diesel generators.

Could you provide me with some readings on that? I'm searching things like "united kingdom natural gas" but am unable to find any articles discussing this rise in natural gas and wood. (Not saying I don't believe you! I'm just curious.) 

I see that in September, The Independent reported that almost a third of the UK's electricity came from renewable energy (with wind power being the most prominent): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busine...72266.html
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
Don't tell the WLB.  He'll just call it Fake News anyway.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
(November 10, 2017 at 3:58 pm)Aegon Wrote:
(November 10, 2017 at 3:52 pm)Wololo Wrote: The only problem with the UK's energy problem is that they are shifting to natural gas and wood (which is much more ecologically damaging than coal), and even worse when their electricity security gets worst, really dirty diesel generators.

Could you provide me with some readings on that? I'm searching things like "united kingdom natural gas" but am unable to find any articles discussing this rise in natural gas and wood. (Not saying I don't believe you! I'm just curious.) 

I see that in September, The Independent reported that almost a third of the UK's electricity came from renewable energy (with wind power being the most prominent): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busine...72266.html

I can't really, most of my information comes from the Private Eye (which is behind a paywall, so therefore not freely available), and what my brother gets from his industry sources and academic journals. However the Wikipedia numbers are:

Quote:In 2016, total electricity production stood at 357 TWh (down from a peak of 385 TWh in 2005), generated from the following sources:[32][33]
Gas: 40.2% (0.05% in 1990)
Nuclear: 20.1% (19% in 1990)
Wind: 10.6% (0% in 1990), of which:
Onshore Wind: 5.7%
Offshore Wind: 4.9%

Coal: 8.6 (67% in 1990)
Bio-Energy: 8.4% (0% in 1990)
Solar: 2.8% (0% in 1990)
Hydroelectric: 1.5% (2.6% in 1990)
Oil and other: 7.8% (12% in 1990)
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
(November 10, 2017 at 3:52 pm)Wololo Wrote:
(November 10, 2017 at 2:38 pm)Aegon Wrote: Scientific American: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017


An article comes out every goddamn day proving that the U.S. should be investing in renewable energies. But Trump needs them votes from coal country, so we're going to be years behind economically.

The only problem with the UK's energy problem is that they are shifting to natural gas and wood (which is much more ecologically damaging than coal), and even worse when their electricity security gets worst, really dirty diesel generators.

Wood is more ecologically damaging than coal? I disagree. For one thing burning wood is carbon neutral, whereas coal causes heavy pollution. Additionally, forestry can be a sustainable industry, whereas coal will never be.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
The trouble with wood as fuel arises in the gulf between best practices and current practices.  That and the fact that renewables advocates feel threatened by such a simple solution that they fudge their emissions math and don't count the dirty furnaces baking silicon and heavy metals now that electronics manufacturing can't keep up with demand as a waste stream.
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RE: Coal Only Supplied 2 Percent of U.K. Electricity in the First 6 Months of 2017
Iowa, with Warren Buffet funding project, is hot on England's heels for renewable electricity.

Not sure hostility to US measures is warranted considering Iowa success story with filthy capitalist Buffet leading the way AND showing renewability is PROFITABLE.

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