Here is an screen shot on the scheduled shut down of the last running coal plant in the UK.
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Last Coal Plant in UK to shut down at end of Sept. 2024
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Why shut the plant down unless Britian bans all products/services/trade/ immigration/ tourists from China and India?
What is the UK using instead of coal?
This wasn’t an article, it was a screenshot of a headline. Not a lot of information.
This wasn’t an article, it was a screenshot of a headline. Not a lot of information.
I couldn’t do a cut and past on my ipad. I’ll do it on my laptop later. Edit: Alarm Guy took care of it.
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I guess this means rates for black lung disease among miners will decrease in the UK.
Here is the electricity production by source. Natural gas production from the North Sea is in decline.
On October 1, the UK will no longer use coal to produce electricity.
The last coal plant to close only produced 1.8% of the electricity the UK uses
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/end-to-coal-power-brought-forward-to-october-2024
The last coal plant to close only produced 1.8% of the electricity the UK uses
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/end-to-coal-power-brought-forward-to-october-2024
Natural gas, interesting that the government link above left out that fact. It is impressive. the amount of renewable resources they use combined with wind however they’re burning a significant amount of fossil fuel I suppose because of the reluctance to add nuclear.
https://www.marketscreener.com/news...oal-fired-power-plant-End-of-an-era-47888802/
In addition to what else the articles above don’t say is the ridiculous cost of electricity in the UK
$.41 a kilowatt hour and who knows how many charges are added onto that.
Source= https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374906/household-electricity-prices-in-the-united-kingdom/
$.41 a kilowatt hour and who knows how many charges are added onto that.
Source= https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374906/household-electricity-prices-in-the-united-kingdom/
The same thing as everyone else. More expensive electricity.
They can always sell the coal to china.
Perhaps
Yup! China will first take over world industries as they are doing, produce power by all means necessary to grow their country. (they also lead buy a H-U-G-E margin the 70 nuclear planned power plants and 20 or so currently under construction. All while bringing on line an average of 2 new coal power plants a week. Good for them, jobs, jobs, jobs booming low cost economy.
https://energyandcleanair.org/record-rise-in-chinas-coal-production-and-imports/
Compare the cost of electricity in China in this chart and compare it to the UK chart a few posts up.
Source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1373587/household-electricity-price-china/
Here is a map of pipelines in the North Sea. The UK gets a portion of their natural gas from their own wells and a portion from Norway. They also Import LNG, some from the USA and in the past, some from Russia.
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The UK is highly interconnected with France, where their first new nuclear plant in decades is finally coming online (Flamanville) along with other peer grids. The UK's AGR fleet is slowly being retired, as these cannot be life extended/refurbished, while Hinkley Point C, a 2-unit 3,200MW pair of EPR's, won't be online until around 2029/2030 and Sizewell C is still under development.
If we look at the UK's grid right now:
We can see that by far the largest installed capacity is in natural gas generation, which is used to balance the wind capacity, which, apropos of this discussion, is clearly not showing up right now.
France on the other hand, has exports going gang-busters with an emissions intensity almost 10x lower than the UK's to boot:
If we look at the UK's grid right now:
We can see that by far the largest installed capacity is in natural gas generation, which is used to balance the wind capacity, which, apropos of this discussion, is clearly not showing up right now.
France on the other hand, has exports going gang-busters with an emissions intensity almost 10x lower than the UK's to boot:
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China needs the coal as they prolly have two plants going online this month.
Here are the main countries supplying coal to China. Australia was shut out for a while but is back. The coal from Canada is mostly metallurgical coal.
Indonesia completely dominates the imports. China will bring in some coal from across the Pacific but not any further evidently. It doesn’t have to.
Indonesia completely dominates the imports. China will bring in some coal from across the Pacific but not any further evidently. It doesn’t have to.
