The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom will close this Monday (30), ceasing the use of this fuel to generate electricity, a first for a member of the G7, the group of the world’s most developed countries. ,
The closure of the facility, which opened in 1967 and employed 350 people, is a symbolic step in Britain’s ambitious plan to completely decarbonize its electricity by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
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The United Kingdom thus becomes the first G7 member state to take this step. Italy is considering doing so in 2025, France in 2027, Canada in 2030, and Germany in 2038, while Japan and the United States have not set a date.
The British government, which recently launched a renewable energy scheme, said the completion “marks the end of an era”, but also opens “a new era” that will boost the creation of new jobs in the energy sector.
The plant, located in Ratcliffe-on-Soar between the cities of Derby and Nottingham in central England, is expected to be completely dismantled “before the end of the decade”, German energy company Uniper, its owner, previously told An On -Construction of the site “Carbon-Free Energy and Technology Centre”.
Coal contributed significantly to Britain’s economic growth between the 19th century and the 1990s.
This highly polluting energy still generated 70% of its electricity in the 1980s, before a significant decline to 38% in 2013, 5% in 2018 and 1% last year.
To curb this dependence, the British began to opt for natural gas, a fossil energy that was presented as less polluting and which would be used to produce a third of the United Kingdom’s electricity in 2023.
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Tony Bosworth of Friends of the Earth says, “(Coal’s) place is now in the history books. The priority now is to capture gas, to develop the UK’s huge renewable energy potential as quickly as possible.”
Doug Parr of Greenpeace UK says, “The UK has set an example for the rest of the world.”
As part of its renewable energy plan, London intends, above all, to create a public company, Great British Energy, in Aberdeen in the east of Scotland, which will invest in floating wind turbines, tidal or nuclear energy.
Similarly, the United Kingdom recently nationalized for £630 million (R$4.7 billion at current prices) the operator of the British electricity grid ESO, which was responsible for regulating the balance between electricity supply and demand, in order to “New sustainables” can be added. production projects” more effectively.
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