Climate change - How Britain decarbonised faster than any other rich country | Britain
O VER THE summer of 2020, as coronavirus cases fell and life in Britain felt briefly normal, something very abnormal was happening to the country’s electricity supply. No coal was burned to generate any portion of it for a period of more than two months, something that had not happened since 1882. Britain’s four remaining coal-burning power plants are zombies, all but dead. Within a couple of years they will be closed and Britain will probably never burn coal for electricity again. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. The elimination of power stations that bu...