The UK on Friday 21st April 2017 managed to go the entire 24 hours without having to rely on any power sourced from coal power. It is the first time it has happened since the industrial revolution in 1888.
It is not the first time we have gone without coal-power for a period of time, but the last record was 19 hours in 2016. The fact that this time it was an entire day shows that we no longer need to rely on coal power to power the UK.
On Friday 21st April, power came from a range of sources including; natural gas (50.3%), nuclear (21.2%), wind (12.2%), biomass (6.7%) and solar (3.6%).
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