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Incredible to remember, only 8yrs ago in 2010, when plans for a big new coal plant at Kingsnorth were shelved. Then the old plant closed in 2013. Now this…https://twitter.com/PAImages/status/976780184803299334 …
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Of course, the just-demolished Kingsnorth tower was the site of the famous chimney-climbing @GreenpeaceUK protestors, who made it the epicentre of the fight over new UK coal. Remember them?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cif-green/2009/oct/08/kingsnorth-climbdown-british-climate-movement … @benstewart999pic.twitter.com/V8LxB6W1H1
(More reflections on that fight here: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/coal-kingsnorth-ten-years/ … )
Kingsnorth was also supposed to be part of the CCS revolution that would clean up coal emissions. Yeah… that didn't go so well. NIce CGI image here though! http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121217172735/http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/ccs/chapter1-3/key-knowledge-reference-book.pdf …pic.twitter.com/SA3DdYvqRb
Still, it's a stark reminder of *just how long* the UK has been supposedly pushing ahead with CCS. Kingsnorth pulled out of the process when it ditched the coal plans in 2010…and we still don't have any UK CCS plants, nor plans to get them.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11584004 …
Anyway, since then, UK coal use has absolutely collapsed. It's now at record lows, in data going back to the mid-1800s. No joke. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-carbon-emissions-in-2017-fell-to-levels-last-seen-in-1890 …pic.twitter.com/SeNHYjCI71
Plus the UK has committed to phase out coal power by 2025. Only 7 plants remain and they're mostly not running much (there's been a big uptick during recent cold weather, due to gas being expensive). We're tracking the phaseout here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/countdown-to-2025-tracking-the-uk-coal-phase-out …pic.twitter.com/F9X77ieLHL
PS I'd love to see the projections that drove EOn's plans to invest in a new coal plant at Kingsnorth. Bet they were all sorts of wrong… …Ah yes: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=03D62394259A849E7F5BC6E5BF98B776?doi=10.1.1.694.7002&rep=rep1&type=pdf …pic.twitter.com/jXH0I4yKPU
Here's what actually happened to UK peak power demand. Many people still have no idea about this… https://www.carbonbrief.org/five-things-we-learned-from-national-grids-winter-outlook-report …pic.twitter.com/UpsZibKn71
We've come a long way in a short time, but there's plenty more to be done.
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