News flash
- The Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station will shut down at the end of the month.
- Commissioned in 1968 by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the station has a capacity of 2,000 MW.
- It is the last remaining operational coal-fired power station in the UK.
- The shutdown signals the end to polluting coal-powered electricity in the UK, in a landmark first for any G7 nation.ย
- It is also a symbolic step in the UK’s ambition to decarbonise electricity by 2030, and become carbon neutral by 2050.ย
In its last years, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, which had the potential to power two million homes, has been used only for peaking demand. Its last delivery of 1,650 tons of coal at the start of this summer barely supplied 500,000 homes for eight hours.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal