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The United Kingdom is set to close the country’s last coal-fired power station on Monday, ending Britain’s 142-year reliance on fossil fuels for electricity.
The British PA Media agency reported that the Ratcliffe-on-Sur station has been generating electricity since 1968 through four coal-fired boilers, eight huge cooling towers and a chimney 199 meters high.
The station could supply energy to about two million homes, and it was the last station of its kind in the United Kingdom since September 2023, after the closure of the Killerroot station in Northern Ireland, where electricity was also being generated using coal.
