Baron99 Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 10 hours ago, Pyrotequila said: I'd be curious where they think all the electricity is going to come from if we close the fossil fuel based power plants? Right now, only 51% of electricity is being generated by "green" energy (https://grid.iamkate.com/ ), and that's probably only because there's a big storm blowing through overnight. Close down the fossil fuel plants and these people will have no way to charge their phones so they can order more oil derived high-vis vests, or heat their vegan bacon, and factories definitely won't have the power to create more superglue for them. Coincidentally, the last coal fired power station is taken off line & closes today in Nottinghamshire at midnight tonight. The UK no longer uses fossil fuel for power generation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisispoint Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 1 hour ago, Baron99 said: Coincidentally, the last coal fired power station is taken off line & closes today in Nottinghamshire at midnight tonight. The UK no longer uses fossil fuel for power generation. We still have gas powered, power stations operating in the UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotequila Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 1 hour ago, Baron99 said: Coincidentally, the last coal fired power station is taken off line & closes today in Nottinghamshire at midnight tonight. The UK no longer uses fossil fuel for power generation. Natural gas? Also; https://grid.iamkate.com/ says that as of right now, 7:49am, there is 0.23GW of power being generated by coal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisispoint Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 Fossil fuels 15.1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 4 hours ago, Baron99 said: Coincidentally, the last coal fired power station is taken off line & closes today in Nottinghamshire at midnight tonight. The UK no longer uses fossil fuel for power generation. Absolute cobblers, on days with no wind over 50% of generation is from gas fired stations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 3 hours ago, Pyrotequila said: Natural gas? Also; https://grid.iamkate.com/ says that as of right now, 7:49am, there is 0.23GW of power being generated by coal Last day for the power station in question is scheduled to be today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 We've also got interconnects to several other countries to supply/draw from them. Which further complicates trying to figure out the fossil fuel mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted Monday at 16:15 Share Posted Monday at 16:15 Here's a new group. Targeted Sheffield University. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd98wdvqyq0o 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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