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Government charts coal’s demise
In-Depth01-Jan-15
While Germany is pursuing the opposite policy, the UK is phasing out coal power stations and building nuclear replacements.
In 2014, the UK’s then energy minister, Michael Fallon, confirmed that the government would not challenge the EU’s environmental law by allowing the utilisation of mothballed coal-fired power stations to prevent blackouts. “We see coal shrinking very rapidly from now on, probably contributing nothing by 2030,” he said. “Coal is going to disappear off the system.”
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