In 2015, the Government -- that's their equivalent of what we Americans would call the Presidential administration -- announced that coal-powered generation of electricity would cease in the UK by 2025. They may accomplish that ahead of schedule: there were 14 remaining coal-fired power station in the UK at the time of the 2015 announcement. Right now, 4 are left in operation. In April 2017, the UK went for 24 hours period without generating any electricity from coal. In May 2019 they for a week week without coal power.[8]. In 2020 so far they went for one continuous period of over a month without any electricity generated by coal.
In 2014, 30% of the UK's electricity was generated with coal. In 2019 it was 2%.
By comparison, coal accounted for 39% of the country's electricity produced by utilities in 2014, 33% in 2015, 30.4% in 2016, 30.0% in 2017, 27.4% in 2018, and 23.5% in 2019. In 1990, the US had 4 times as much wind energy, and 50 times as much solar energy as any other single nation. Now China is ahead of us in both categories and other countries, most certainly including the UK, are gaining on us very fast. Many countries are going through developments very similar to those in the UK. Not the US, though. And especially not when Republicans control the White House and Congress.
My fellow Murrkins: learn what's going on in other countries. Ask our leaders why the US can't out-do them. And don't take any wooden nickles.
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