The UK’s final coal-fired power station is about to be demolished
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- The UK’s final coal-fired power station is about to be demolished
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Drax needs to go too. Importing wood to burn it is worse than local coal.
And actually co-fires biomass with coke, which is dirtier than coal.
I live 20 miles from Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station and I hear of its closure from an EV news channel in Australia!
Media keep it quiet to discredit renewable energy and push that EVs run on coal .
I live less than 10 miles from the power station and a friend works there as a chemist. Like you I heard about the closure from this video.
Hopefully, the skies will be clearer where I live and will be able to use my astronomical telescopes more often.
It has been on the news several times, it’s being decommissioned now for complete closure this year. However, the government plans to build new gas-fired power plants, as well as to extend the life of some "ageing unabated gas assets" where safe to do so, to ensure flexible power generation capacity, energy minister Claire Coutinho. March 2024. This is likely to change following the election and an expected labour win. They will open the onshore wind generation opportunities.
@@catherinegrimes2308 Telescopes? When is it not cloudy over there?
@@user-mp3eh8fk8q There can be clear days where I live, but it tends to cloud over at night. Even on a "clear" night the sky can look a bit murky.
I live about a km away from the river that is about 60m above mean sea level. In addition to the power station, there is an airport quite close and they probably don't help with the clarity.
I recently saw the solar eclipse in the US and we went to New Mexico and Arizona after seeing it. In Flagstaff we went to the Lowell Observatory that is at an altitude of about 2200m and I took a hand held photograph of the Moon with a camera with a zoom lens. On a quick examination of the camera's screen, it looked like the best photograph of the Moon that I have ever taken and that includes photographs taken with expensive astronomical equipment from my garden.
It must be nice to live somewhere with beautiful weather and clear dark skies.
My family were Welsh and midlands coalminers, I grew up around areas where coal fired power plants left residue on and place you touched. My father left the mines and got better jobs eventually as a welder for Jaguar cars.
I say good riddance to this era of fossil fuels may it soon be joined by the rest of the fossil fuel industry
Absolutely 👍
Good riddance.
Fossil fuels raised mankind from a hell, to a life of riches and luxury. You will live to regret it's passing, if it ever does.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Will you live to regret climate change and premature deaths caused by fossil fuels too?
@@anglosaxonmike8325it raised the mine owners to a life of luxury while the miners enjoyed black lung decease and their families were turned out of the company housing
@@realrift01 people are living longer not shorter since the introduction of fossil fuels
Fun fact, my mother used to work in the coal mines in the west of England in the 1960's (she worked in the canteen) 😃. However, I actually went down the mine with a school trip would you believe! It was an experience of a lifetime for us, cooped up in this small dark cage, descending into the depths of the earth, and seeing all those wonderful fossilized and carbonized tree trunks etc, with the added bonus of water rushing along the floor, and the heat! it was very hot down there. ( a possible low cost renewable power source?) To add to that, the steel roof supports had bent down to a w shape because of the pressure over time. Of course all this wonderful stuff I experienced is not possible these days because of all the safety regulations in place and so on. I am 77 now, and I am still here, my parents emigrated to Ausi soon after, so I have lived most of my adult life down under, and love it.
Coal was also used to heat homes and drive trains, so back in the fifties the air in London was so bad that people literally suffocated on the streets. True story.
Bollocks
we lived in the south London area in the 60,s and mum used to hang out the washing in our small back garden, and it was covered in soot spots when she bought it in, amazing that this was accepted in those days.
It was accepted because coal gave many advantages, even if some bad points . Everything is like that., ypu will eventually find renewables to be the same with pros and cons
Thank you for your service Ratcliffe-on-soar power station & goodbye to coal powered electricity generation for good.
Absolutely 👍
So, no more cancer coming out of the chimneys?
And say goodbye to cheap abundant energy.
@@robertfonovic3551where is cheap abundant energy going?
@@robertfonovic3551 you mean coal is free? that means my coal miner grandads life was cheap as he died in his 50s
Viking I was able to lead by example. I got 3 house owner’s to install solar. As small as my contribution, eventually they will get an EV car. It happen with my son. He has solar panels and a Model Y.
you do realise solar wear out?? you do? dont you? its the most unrelaible generation of power there is as well as dirty
Coal was big in the UK. Germany too. I wonder when Germany will close its last?
At this rate maybe 3-5 years, down 30% in one year🥰
Could have done it earlier if they didn't close their nukes.
Iirc they opened more coal fired stations up in a very hypocritical way after telling everyone else they should close theirs. Precisely because mad Merkel shut the nukes for reasons only she knows and they had trouble with their offshore wind
Thanks Electric Viking ⚡️⚡️⚡️
I kinda agree, this is actually a dawning of a new era in technology of computing and energy. The EV revolution is a small part. The antiquated transportation is changing rapidly. Utilities have been gouging people for decades and it’s our duty to facilitate the transition. It’s a little difficult but I feel it’s my responsibility to go off grid.
Thanks for all your hard work 👍
Cheers 🥂
Electric Viking 👍⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
I drove past this yesterday and saw the low levels of coal compared to normal. Then I wondered how much more would be used before it is closed!
🙋♂️ GREAT NEWS, VIKING 🤗 in the U.S.our family and friends worked in coal mines,NEVER WAS IT A GOOD WAY TO LIVE…and many died from mining accidents 😞and others from black lung disease 🥺💚💚💚
and many families are suffering from birth defects from exposure to lithium pollution around north America , south america and africa
Fiddler's Ferry power station towers are also being demolished one by one.
Wow! I live seven miles from it in Nottingham and hadn't heard about this. It is quite a landmark - from high up in the city looking west it stands there, half way to the horizon. Drive past it and theres a literal mountain of coal next to it.
I remember our house was heated by coal. Had a 2 m cube furnace in the cellar a whole room to store coal in the basement.
I’m curious, any respiratory illness in your family?
“The turbines will stop spinning” at the exactly the same time showing wind turbines in the video🤦🏼♂️😂
Thank you for your productivity, but it’s a little quick and dirty.
I thought the same, that’s AI for you - I’m sure that Sam has some smarts to add the footage to the clips..
1:30 an unfortunate edit - 'its turbines will stop spinning for good' meaning its steam turbines - paired with picture of wind turbines which presumably continued to spin.
Well said, Viking. That was an almost poetic, kind, yet real homage to coal. A great movie about coal is called "October Sky" about coal mining in West Virginia and a teenager who became an astronautical engineer from a town called Coalwood, WV. Great movie.
Change is almost always for the better!! I live in Ontario Canada where in 2014 the last coal fired utility generation facility whas closed down and we have not had a smog day since! prior to this smog days were an ever increasing problem. Let the oil rest in peace where it came from, with the dinosaurs!!
how did you correlate oil and coal? but your still happy to use oil every day which is a completely different element to coal
I used to work with Ian Jackson, the guy quoted on the article - top guy and life long coal power station employee.
It must be very emotional for all of the employees who have never worked anywhere else…
The closure of the UKs coal stations was planned years ago and is due to replacement by gas-fired power stations. It stands next to the River Trent, not the River Soar. There is still plenty of coal in the stockyard. It has contracts to generate up until September, and it's only brought on-line when there's no wind. The cooling towers aren't scheduled to be demolished for a few more years. The station also supplied copious amounts of clinker for building blocks and calcium sulphate as feed stock for the nearby plasterboard factory. Not sure where they're going to get these raw materials now.
Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is near to the confluence of both the River Soar and River Trent ... however, between the power station and the River Trent stands Red Hill, which is so large and high that the railway and cooling power required substantial tunnels under the hill.
I’m particularly interested in the use of the plant only when wind isn’t delivering.
Can you elaborate on this? How long does it take to come online and how do they manage this load balancing and prediction process?
Previous information I’ve read has said coal plants can’t be “spun up” and “spun down”. They need to constantly run, is this not true?
I thought this was why gas turbine peaker plants existed to help balance and smooth the load.
@@aaronsinspirationdaily4896I’m not sure about the technicalities of the ramping up procedure but obviously short term weather forecasting must be used to predict expected solar & wind generation which is buffered by battery grid storage. In terms of demand domestic consumption is quite predictable peaking between 4pm and 7pm when schools close and people return from work. Smart meters no doubt also help. Wholesale energy prices vary with demand and the price changes half hourly. Commercial metering at any larger business has half hourly metering where the meter records maximum demand in half hourly increments and relays the data back to the network which is then analysed to enable energy generators to ramp up or down capacity accordingly.
I believe that’s broadly speaking correct. I’m no engineer or captain of industry but my job involves retrieval of data from non communicating half hourly meters so I know a little about it. Hopefully that helps?
I live in NZ but from what I have seen on TH-cam, there is an undersea connection network between the UK and European countries to help balance power generation. This will play an even more important role in the future. Scotland has wind to spare, Norway has hydro and Denmark is into offshore wind as well as the offshore wind the UK is installing.
Nuclear and coal can't be turned on/off very quickly so need to be base load. Back in the day most electricity was generated by both of these with gas being a peak lopper as they were called up until the pumped storage storage system was built at the end of the CEGB days. That was built to handle the extreme demand when everyone went to put the kettle on in the ad break on TV programme s that everyone watched back then on the 2-3 channels. Everyone on the country put the kettle on at roughly the same time and the demand would drop away just as quickly until the next ad break Coronation street was always the quoted programme.
This meant gas and electricity were largely independently priced.
When they had the dash for gas that changed as everyone moved towards gas and the eco hysteria just made that move more evident.
What everyone needs to understand is that the way the market is run now, companies are bidding to supply electricity , but renewables get first dibs and are paid constraint payments to not generate if they are supplying too much . The other generators have to just sit around waiting until they are needed to fill in because renewables can't cope. They may get some payment for doing so , but as you see the market is stacked against them and they eventually close. Trouble is there is then no backup. This is a basic overlook , details adjust the actual outlook
Now because a lot of gas is used for electricity the prices are not independent. Gas prices going up makes electricity prices go up
In America we have train lines all across the country & the Cole cars on our trains have no covers so Cole dust spreads for miles on booth sides of the traxs all through the hearts of towns & city's just like lead in the gas spread everywhere back in the gas has lead for fun day's.
and thats the same issue with lithium
I used to live nearby and we often sat outside the pub' on the River Trent and looked across at the Steam rising from the cooling towers. Hence the name "The Cloud Factory". 🙂
The towers ("The Seven Sisters") cooled the steam and much of it rained down inside the towers to recirculate.
A side use of all this warm water was growing Eels in the pools at the bottom of the towers, I wonder where Londoners will get their Jellied Eels now?
Interesting side fact. I was told when I visited that the reason the railway station took so long to build (EM parkway) was because they were trying to get immunity from any legal action caused by the clouds causing ice production on what is now the station site. I think the land belonged to the power station and could get quite icy under certain conditions due to precipitation from the steam. They didn't want passengers sueing them for any Ice related accidents..
50 years ago, From New Zealand I decided to sunbathe in Holland. Having discovered I could go for thirty minutes. I covered up. Then I tried, an hour. At similar latitudes, north and south, half an hour of UV rays or one and a half hours for a sun burn. The air was full of British industrial smoke. In Ugoslavia I was called on to relieve several young Netherlanders of the pain of severe sunburn. A quick dash of baby, or sewing machine, oil. Pain gone in ten minutes, no peeling.
I remember my old boss Colin Smith was the commissioning engineer signing off Ratcliffe as a power station, he’s long gone and now so is this blot on the landscape, hopefully the site can be levelled and used for solar or housing or maybe both, the sites big enough
Wow, coming from the home of where the industrial revolution started, no coal power stations anymore! As long as those responsible for supplying electricity have a suitable plan for the uninterrupted supply of electricity to customers.
They haven't. They will just virtue signal and posture until it all goes to crap and then scurry around like rabbits in the headlights trying to blame everyone else.. you've seen it before. You will see it again
Sad for those that the coal industry was a huge part of their life, but I’m happy for the planet at this news. They might make our lives easier, but we do not “need” plastics (and asphalt for that matter). We just want to keep them! What we do need though, is to avert climate change and that will require a mind shift and sacrifice. I believe that while challenging, this transition to sustainable economies will create huge opportunities and wet need all hands on deck! I hope engineers in the fossil fuel world are able to join the cause and redirect their skills in the mission towards a sustainable future.
I used to visit Nottingham and would see it as I drove off the M1 11 years ago. I thought at the time it was dirty and polluting. They might keep the cooling towers like at Didcot as landmark.
I understand the sense of loss people can feel, especially for the people who worked at a place like that (or in a coal mine.) You think back on your whole career, and the physical evidence of your hard work is gone. I feel the same about my IT career. The systems I built and sweat blood and tears over are gone. Most of the companies I worked for are gone too. I start thinking, how long will the evidence that I even existed last?
I’ll be on the train today that goes within 100 metres of those towers.
It’s a good job it’s closing as around 3000 plus homes are being built on land opposite.
When you say it’s the size of “the city of London” you are of course referring to the original Roman city of one square mile in size and not Greater London with more than 9 million people 😮
you cant build homes there for several years .... brown land has to settle and has to be tested every year
Cheers mate
Britain is miniscule compared to the world, what we do will not sort out the mess. John Kerry remarked in February 2024 on radio 4 that 5 coal fired power stations are ready to switch on around the world, that he says will cancel out all the benefits we have achieved so far. Let's not get too blind sided by what happens on our door step when the world needs power, and coal is relatively easy to convert into that power. Coal will stop when there is no money in it.
A bit misleading for most when you say the "size of the city of London". The actual "city of London" is only 1 sq mile.
Also, when you refer to turbines, those are steam turbines not wind turbines as in the pictures.
About time. The pollution is not needed.
What pollution?
you do realise it was steam?
I live nearby and drive past Ratcliffe on soar almost daily. Had no idea it was the last or that it was to be decommissioned. MAGGIE THATCHER, got it right in the 80's closing the mines. This is such good news. We now have the new Luddites campaigning against solar power. 😢
It might be a wise incentive to keep the coal and generators as a 'Standby" or "backup"?....
Three of the four Siemens generators will start being decommissioned shortly. The fourth is to be kept available over the coming winter for emergency use. This last generator will be decommissioned in April 2025.
I used to work there and left in 2022 as a part of the downsizing for its original closure plans but still keep in touch with people there.
Battlesea power station, iconic coal power station in London is now a shopping mall,its very nice
No such thing as green hydrogen
yes there is, make it from water using renewable electricity.
@@kevinashurst634 HA ha ha , you should have gone to school. ha ha ha
@@anglosaxonmike8325 oddly enough thats where I first saw hydrogem being separated from water, using electricity. I guess you didn't turn up that day? Just for clarity green hydrogen is actually transparent with no visible colour.
Couldn’t happen soon enough!
I guess they still have a few nuclear power stations remaining, so still have some backup.
Still have 5 nuclear plants with a new one being built at the moment 👍 Coal only made up 1.1% of the grid mix last year so is negligible in the short term.
The U.S. EPA just passed new ruling mandating ALL coal and gas power plants to capture at least 90% of their emissions. This will effectively shut down all coal plants and most gas plants.
You need to preach your green message to the chicoms as of 2022 there’re completing 6 new coal plants a week. Or said another way 95%of the new coal plants a year in China.
a lot of toxic waste clearing
Great video!
Well researched story.
Morning mate
shut it down and build solar and wind in its place for all the coal and fossil fuel plants.It will make electricity cheaper and more affordable.
Coal is the most damaging but gas & oil are also extremely destructive. Nuclear Power is a large part of the answer.
Sad thing is, electricity prices have not declined. They are still going up? WTF
In ths UK, it’s still linked to gas prices. Hopefully that will change.
In Germany, they're down 40% in a year. But like in UK, it's all tied to gas prices 🤬
@crm11450 My understanding is there is an agreement in place that states, as long as gas is in use, does not matter the quantity, it will not change. This is to stop them turning off supply early & turning the lights off. It's a disgrace & another sign that democracy is dead. Governments selling its people down the line & not standing up to these energy companies. Left it too late & now it's got no options.
something about iranian intervention in the middle east problem
Why would electricity prices go down? It costs money to build new renewable generation, and to build the new nuclear and gas plants that we also need, and to extend and improve the grid as we electrify. That all feeds into the price of electricity.
I hope the traditional media, especially that owned by the Fossils Fools (yeah you know the TV station I mean) will cover this story.
Great news. I remember this from my years at Nottingham Trent Uni. The whole city of Nottingham is downwind from Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.
This also spoils Lee Anderson’s claim that his electric lawnmower was powered by coal.
And not too soon either.
Pretty stupid. When deep geothermal drilling will be mastered, it will be possible to create a geothermal well for steam production right in the yard of the former coal-fired power plant. Everything is already in place: steam turbines, connection to the grid.
Arther Skargill lead the miners into a strike to stop the mines closing and the miners won the strike and the government lost power but when Maggie Thatvher came to power she broke the miners power and started to shut the mines but that was to replace coal with North Sea gas which was cleaner and cheaper.
Joe Gormley was the miner's leader when they brought down Edward Heath's Tory Government.
So why?...geopolitically..is the UK pulling such a close second to the US in protecting the military industrial complex?? which includes oil and coal...
Is it just old institutions doing what they've always done, putting up a last hand -hurrah while drowning?
Yes, I think you are correct and just like EVs they are manipulating our energy supply in order to blame renewables. I personally believe coal could be clean but profits disappear. Coal is domestic and the military industrial complex want all nations dependent on foreign oil because THIS justifies their budget. That’s why going off grid personally has tremendous leverage over the evil hand. Just my suspicions and opinions.
Bye. See ya!
let the power shortage begin unless they replace it with a nat. gas plant or nuclear.
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Viking-> turn this last coal plant into a museum
Lol I’m gonna miss that polution😂😂😂
I enjoy your videos very much. I'd like to point out in your videos the great plumes of steam rising from the exhaust stacks and cooling towers in the industrial plants. Most folks just see the steam wafting into the air and think little of it, but those of us that have worked in such places know that all that steam is water vapor, and water is EXPENSIVE. When you see water vapor like that, you are seeing millions of dollars just floating away, so you should ask yourself why the companies do that? Why don't the companies condense and recover all that water so that it can be recycled? It is cheap and easy to recover water vapor like that, so why waste all that money and water? The answer is simple. That water vapor is polluted. It contains chemicals and pollutants that the company would otherwise have to treat and dispose of properly, and that is expensive, so they just allow it to silently waft away into your air and rain down upon the land far away from the company, and people don't even notice. It is cheaper to pollute the world than to operate a facility like that in a safe and clean manner.
Actually it's taken from the nearby river and any that doesn't get steamed away is returned to the river.
@@user-it7lf7kk8m I think you missed two points; Water is expensive, and the steam vapor you see contains pollution the companies are spewing into your air and water.
Just tell the New South Wales government and Queensland government
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Wonder when you will be able to report that the highest emitter in the world will stop building coal fired power station to fuel its EV revolution.
I did read that China is "only" adding 40GW of new coal power this year vs 170GW Solar PV & 90GW Wind. So they are getting there, just the increase in energy demand is outstripping the pace they can build wind/solar. Couple more years and they will be able to stop building new coal 🤞
They are also adding 40GW of gas/biomass and 73GW of nuclear/hydro which goes to show how much power they need but on the plus side, the grid is getting greener even if overall pollution is still rising.
China just suffered some fairly heavy rainfall issues in the South, I would suggest mother nature will force them to do something sooner rather than later.
@cbcdesign001 I don't think China has much interest in human life. It's leader is only interested in power.
Never, they aren't so stupid. co2 is at historically low levels, we need more.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 No we don't need any more, the plants grow fine as it is. Soil nutrients are the limiting factor.
no, weve just exported it to india and china
I don't think your attempt to paint Thatcher as supporting cleaner energy is particularly credible. In the 1980s, the UK government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cancelled several major green energy projects and initiatives that had been started earlier. For example:
1. Cancellation of the Alternative Energy Programme:
In the late 1970s, the UK government had launched an ambitious Alternative Energy Programme to develop renewable energy sources like wind, wave, and solar power. However, in the early 1980s, the Thatcher government cut funding for this programme significantly, effectively cancelling many of its research and development projects.
2. Shelving of the windmill programme:
As part of the Alternative Energy Programme, the UK had plans to build large wind farms and invest heavily in wind power. However, these plans were shelved by the Thatcher government, which was more focused on promoting nuclear power and fossil fuels.
3. Abandonment of the wave energy programme:
The UK had been a pioneer in researching and developing wave energy technology, with projects like the Salter's Duck wave energy converter. However, the wave energy programme was largely abandoned in the 1980s due to lack of government funding and support.
4. Reduction in solar energy research:
The UK had several solar energy research projects underway in the 1970s, but these were scaled back or cancelled in the 1980s as the Thatcher government shifted priorities away from renewable energy.
The cancellation of these green energy projects in the 1980s was driven by a combination of factors, including a focus on promoting nuclear power and fossil fuels, a desire to cut government spending, and a self-fulfilling perception that renewable energy technologies were not yet economically viable at that time.
But Australia still mining coal. I guess it's all right as long as it's in someone else's backyard 😢
Blame the consumer. They wouldn't mine it if there was no demand.
Norway is also still drilling their oil and gas.
How's your leg?
Change may be better for some people but bad others if you don't have a job or become homeless or die i dont see how thats better I've been through it it can get real bad for some people and places causes a lot of poverty
Solar is way better
At night or on dark days? HA ha ha
At night is very simple just use a battery pack.
Plenty of new ones being built also.
Drax is burning wood another bad decision #StopBurningStuff
Isn’t it actually worse, I remember watching a documentary about the lie that these wood pelts are supposed to be made from scrap wood and there just isn’t enough scrap wood to fill demand so guess what they use to fill the gap! I won’t say it out loud as this comment will go to /dev/null
@@user-zo2pc5lu5q I do agree with you on Drax. Importing wood from Canada really isn't "sustainable". Biomass IMO should only come from actual waste (garden/food etc.). No point in growing tree's to "capture" carbon to then cut it down, ship it around the world to then burn it and release it back into the atmosphere. Hopefully their subsidies are removed and they will just close it as it's not profitable 🤞
Here in the USA the Appalachian region which is known for coal mining, that region has a 10% higher rate of cancer deaths vs the rest of the United States
Proof?
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Google it, there's A LOT of proof.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Google it.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 www.arc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Health_Disparities_in_Appalachia_Mortality_Domain.pdf
If hydrocarbons are all fossil fuels in other words they came from dinosaurs then how did Saturn's moon Titan end up with more hydrocarbons than we've ever seen in our existence?
There's lots of methane in outer space on various planets. Coal comes from trees and oil from micro-organisms. Hydro carbons don't 'just' come from dead organisms.
@@peteralflat281 The original theory was that Oil, Natural Gas and Methane have all come from decomposing animals and plant life. Thus the term, "Fossil Fuels". So now that these same Hydrocarbons have been found on Titan the theory has been "revised". Either way, it's a theory and not a very believable one.
Wow. Just wow.
@@peteralflat281 Up until they found Hydrocarbons on Titan and Mars, we were told that ALL Hydrocarbons came from "Fossils"... so they were wrong, how do we know they're right now?
We don't need to pump oil, or gas.
Regarding plastic, the oceans are full of it. There is a trash island in the Atlantic bigger than New York.
And, making ethanol takes 70 times more space than what you need for solar panels and EV. So, you can just use plastic from plants.
I like your videos, but pleas don't spred oil propaganda.
The oil industry are subsidized 9.000.000.000.000 USD (forcasted).
This is 1.000 for every human on earth. This is up from 7.000.000.000.000 USD in 2023.
This is posible, because all fossile users are slaves to a corrupt cartel with mostly dictatorships (OPEC).
Even gas, and coal are under their indirect control.
If you had used these subsidies we could exchanged all cars for EV's in 5 years.
Because of the oil slaves, it's OK to increase these subsidies every day.
And, who cares? It's just your hard earned money 💷.
If you look at the UK national grids live we are still using coal and we can’t do without it at the moment
I just checked, right this instant the Uk is getting 3% of its energy from coal. I think we will be ok.
The grid usually uses only around 1% coal.
As I write this we are getting 21.1% from inter connectors
@@snodgee and those inter connectors are a modern marvel. We can get cheap hydro electric power from Norway when we need it, and send cheap wind energy when we have an excess. They are part of the reason we don’t need to worry about this coal plant shutting.
@@randomjasmicisrandom we get part of it from the Netherlands which in their mix is about 14% coal generation
You say the site will be used for solar and wind. Maybe but for the last few years there have been no new land based wind turbines thanks to the Conservative Government. We are getting rid of them this year so hopefully land based wind power will restart under a Labour administration.
What a brilliant and accurate video.
The politics is right.
Viking don't be sitting there in oz saying you're glad to see it going when 100's will lose their jobs.
How about those hundreds repurposing themselves into valid jobs with skills that are necessary in a modern world where fossil fuels are no longer required. I've done this a few times in my life and as an ex 70s Yorkshire miner, I reckon I know what I'm talking about. I know you're British but try and keep up with a fast changing world rather than writing inane comments.
@@LouDeVere I think the methane has gone to you're brain.
Joe Blogs informs us that in 2023 more coal was used than in any other year in history, mainly in China who buys 50% of exported coal
It's a welcome end to this era with the acid rain pollution but don't get carried away . As of 19.15GMT in the UK wind power was producing, 1.6GW with Gas fired power stations 15.8GW and Coal 1GW towards a damandof 31.6GW. Clearly renewables cannot provide a reliable power delivery when the wind doesn't blow or there's no sunshine. and this is before the large scale swap to electric car charging and the removal of gas to use in house central heating.
Plus the UK seems happy to close down manufacturing and offshore it to coal burning China.
I think we could get rid of fossil fuels entirely, bioplastics are available and i think they could be improved to completely replace conventional plastic containing petroleum.
Wood pellets from virgin forest from British Columbia Canada
The UK is so completely ice-bound during the ice age intervals that it is connected to the mainland by ice. It is virtually uninhabitable. The health problems associated with coal are not caused by CO2 emissions, which is what contributes to global warming. This broadcast mixes health risks and climate fears and is not an intelligent discussion of the problem.
There is no evidence at all anywhere that co2 causes warming. It has been colder with higher co2 and vice versa. It's sun, old son.
This last winter people across the country was asked to reduce electric consumption at peak times to prevent blackouts we are heading back to the dark ages 🙈😳
The UK better pray they keep getting mild winters until the replacement capacity actually gets built, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one!
Coal is only 1.1% of the mix last year, it really isn't the issue you think it is. We have a large installed capacity of gas if needed and the Danish interconnector coming on line. It was only just over 10 years ago that coal made up 43% of the energy mix, carbon intensity was 467g/kWh back then vs 200g/kWh last year. So far this year its 183g. What is there to be worried about?
@@steve_787What about when gas supplies get disrupted? That station could have helped fill in at least some of the gap, it should have been kept as insurance unless you’ve been living under a rock they are a lot of break points in the supply chain combine that with a bad winter and that will jeopardise the UK’s energy security!
Oh and when not if Europe has a bad winter there’ll need the energy themselves so don’t count on them disadvantaging their citizens to help UK citizens
@@user-zo2pc5lu5q hmm, like say when a country invades another and we have our supply disrupted? Yeah, it's happened already mate and we got through it and are now bolstering our own energy supply with wind, solar & interconnectors whilst stock piling gas. Why do you think that nobody, in much more influential places than us in YT comments sections, aren't planning for these events? It's like when people ask where all this power is coming from to run all these EV's? Like no one at the National Grid has thought, hmm, what are we going to do now there are over a million EV's? They plan/forecast for this decades in advance. Oddly, even with all these new EV's, our energy demand has actually been dropping year on year, so if anything, we have more than enough power as we haven't closed any gas stations (that I'm aware of) and only added wind/solar etc. to the grid mix giving use even more power.
@@user-zo2pc5lu5q sorry, didn't see the 2nd comment. There's an assumption there that other countries aren't also looking to bolster their own grids as well. Of 2 of the larger interconnectors we have, Norway is 99% hydro so export energy to us and they don't use that much of the gas they can extract so sell most of it. Our largest interconnector with France is majority Nuclear so again, they are very stable in their own production. We also have a new rector coming online in a few years, plus 10GW of additional interconnectors. Then add in 5GW of wind farms being built by 2025, 6.5GW to follow by 2027 and another 30GW+ by 2030. Then you have people fitting home solar, again removing grid draw. It really does all add up.
I know it's hard to have trust in companies/governments etc. at times but at the end of the day, energy companies want to make a profit and if we demand more power from them, you can be sure they want to sell it to us!
The WEF thanks the clapping seals for celebrating their own demise
We the sheeple😅😅
coal capacity never been higher in history just risen by 2% ... when will it start to decline? atm coal generates as much if not more than all renewable energy .... time has run out and nothing much has happened !
Need to keep burning coal.
Change may be better for some people but bad others if you don't have a job or become homeless or die i dont see how thats better I've been through it it can get real bad for some people and places causes a lot of poverty