New wind power records are set regularly, and between 6:30pm and 7:00pm on 10th January 2023 British wind farms averaged a record 21.69GW of generation. Great Britain’s exposed position in the north-east Atlantic makes it one of the best locations in the world for wind power, and the shallow waters of the North Sea host several of the world’s largest offshore wind farms.
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On 21st April 2015 Great Britain went a full day without any power generation from coal, and between 1st May and 8th May 2019 a week passed without power generation from coal.
Great Britain’s largest power station, Drax, has been converted to burn wood pellets imported from North America (categorised as biomass in the data above). Over time the negative environmental impacts of coal burning became an increasing problem, and in 2001 the European Union issued the Large Combustion Plant Directive, obliging power stations to limit their emissions or close by 2015.Īs a result, nine coal-fired power stations closed between 20. Coal fuelled the industrial revolution, and by 1900 Great Britain was mining 250,000,000 tonnes of coal every year.
The world’s first coal-fired power station, at 57 Holborn Viaduct in London, started producing power on 12th January 1882, lighting the surrounding streets and local buildings through 968 incandescent lamps.
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