Burning coal is the most dirty, polluting, and inefficient way to get electricity.
As early as 1306, Edward I banned Londoners from burning it, due to its noxious smog.
So which countries are phasing it out the fastest now?
Greece and the UK lead the way!
Source: www.wri.org/insights/cou...
That's terrific! Why did the UK manage to do so well? I didn't think the Tories were into renewables. Some relatives installed solar panels because there was a grant & they could sell to the National Grid - then the grant & National Grid thing was taken away from them.
I thought I would too, but I love my induction stove now! It boils so quickly and provides a safe workspace too, as it only heats up when the pot is touching.
I absolutely loathed the induction stove in the previous flat I was in. It mostly didn't work. Errors all the time. Five minutes of heating, then "E8" error. Totally random how hot it got, or didn't. Couldn't sterilise baby's bottles sometimes. Very common apparently. Glad yours behaves better!!
It looks like they did pretty well on the "coal reductions due to zero carbon power" metric, as well. The UK has a (relatively) great offtake structure for captured carbon, but I don't think it's big enough for gas to count for that much zero carbon power.
I'm starting with this, because it gives a longer history:
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-....
But wait, there's more! A dashboard (for GB, not UK): grid.iamkate.com
Past year: Wind>nukes>biomass>solar>hydro
it was a mix of declining overall electrical use (energy efficiency and/or declining manufacturing, I don't know), coal plummeting, fossil gas ~steady, nuclear declining, and wind and solar growing rapidly
also, with graphical data from a different but generally consistent source, I forgot to include biomass (a potentially problematic source due to land use and air pollution issues)
The UK coal reserves are exhausted and expensive to extract and the fossil oligarchs have long since moved to gas. Less particular contamination, same or even worse greenhouse footprint.
