Britain to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025
Britain has announced it plans to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025.
鈥淲e are tackling a legacy of underinvestment and [aging] power stations which we need to replace with alternatives that are reliable, good value for money, and help to reduce our emissions,鈥� Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd . 鈥淚t cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power stations.鈥�
Coal , even as renewable energy has grown to account for 25 percent of Britain鈥檚 overall energy production. To begin the shift, Britain will restrict the use of coal-fired power plants beginning in 2023, with all plants closing completely by 2025. The United Kingdom will construct gas-fired plants as an alternative.
鈥淓nergy security comes first and I am determined to ensure that the UK has secure, affordable, and clean energy supplies that hardworking families and businesses can rely on now and in the future,鈥� Ms. Rudd said.
The move ahead of the climate talks that will begin in Paris at the end of November. But other countries have also begun to move away from coal.
In March, China announced that it outside Beijing in early 2016, also intending to replace them with plants that operate on gas.
And as early as 2012, 聽(EPA)聽聽that required reductions in air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry throughout the United States.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), once one of the biggest generators of coal-based electricity in the country, has been one of the largest contributors to that shift. Under an agreement with the EPA, the TVA has retired this year alone, and to include more sustainable forms of energy by the year 2020. 聽聽聽
