Source: UK Government UK government brings forward the date to remove unabated coal from the UK’s energy mix by a whole year to 2024 key step in UK government’s plans to decarbonise the power sector and eliminate the UK’s contribution to climate change by 2050 move means that within just 10 years Great Britain will have reduced its reliance on coal for electricity from around a third to zero, helping the country build back greener From 1 October 2024 Great Britain will no longer use coal to generate electricity, a year earlier than planned, Energy and Climate Change Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan announced today (Wednesday 30 June 2021).