{"id":30106,"date":"2019-05-07T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=30106"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T21:30:30","slug":"britain-coal-electricity-mb1044","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/britain-coal-electricity-mb1044\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s First 100+ Hours Of Coal-Free Electricity Use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cottam Power Station (Nottinghamshire) – To Close This Year | Image: Richard Croft<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

Another record has tumbled – for the first time, Britain has recorded more than 100 hours without the use of coal power for electricity supply.<\/p>\n

UK_Coal, which publishes hourly tweets of current National Grid UK’s coal generation, put the figure at 128 hours coal-free<\/a> a short time ago – and still counting at that point. Yet to be published are any figures indicating the breakdown of sources keeping the lights on. A summary will probably follow after this run ends.<\/p>\n

News of long periods without coal power will soon become a little ho-hum.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a more regular occurrence now,” said<\/a> National Grid spokesman, Sean Kemp. \u201cMore people have installed solar, more coal is coming off and there\u2019s more wind in the system\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it’s not just clean and green renewables.<\/p>\n

The previous record was set last month<\/a> over the Easter weekend – 90 hours and 45 minutes. Over that time, demand was met by:<\/p>\n