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Great Britain has just gone a whole week without using coal to generate electricity | @drsimevans @tomoprater bit.ly/304amDj

@DrSimEvans @tomoprater In 2019 to date, Great Britain has had 1,139 hours without coal-fired electricity.

That's the equivalent of 47 days – or one third of all hours in the year so far.

@DrSimEvans @tomoprater The amount of electricity generated from coal is down 90% in five years.

Coal now supplies less than 5% of the electricity generated in the UK.

It was 40% as recently as 2012.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-el…

@DrSimEvans @tomoprater Notes:

* This coal-free run is expected to last until at least Thu evening, acc @enappsys

* It applies to generation in GB only. Northern Ireland is part of all-Ireland 'single electricity market'

* UK imports from FR, NL & BE, which all use some coal to generate electricity

@DrSimEvans @tomoprater @enappsys Correction: Per @chrislittlecott reminder, Belgium no longer has any coal-fired power stations.

The Netherlands and France both still use the fuel to generate power (and the continental grid is highly interconnected, linking to others such as Germany).

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