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the United Kingdom is to pass a significant milestone At Midnight on Wednesday, it is gone, you have two full months without burning of coal to generate electricity.

A decade ago, about 40% of the electricity came from coal; coronavirus is part of The Story , but far from all.

If the UK went into lockdown, the electricity broke in the demand, The National Grid has responded by power plants from The Grid .

The Four remaining coal plants were to be shut down among The First .

The Last coal generator came out of The System , At Midnight on the 9th. April. No coal was burned for electricity since.

The figures are for great Britain only Northern Ireland is not on The National electricity grid.

But it just shows how dramatic the turnaround in energy policy has in The Last ten years.

That the country does not need the use of the fuel, which used to be the backbone of The Grid by a massive investment in renewable energies in the Last Decade .

Two examples that illustrate how the UK's energy networks have changed.

A decade ago, only 3% of the electricity came from wind and solar energy, which saw many people as a costly distraction.

Now, the UK has completed the largest offshore wind industry in The World , as well as the largest single wind farm, off the coast of Yorkshire in the Last Year .

At the same time, Drax, the country's largest Power Plant , has a different path to Renewable Energy .

The Plant , Which is also in Yorkshire, generates 5% of electricity in the country.

ten years ago, it was the largest consumer of coal in the UK, but the conversion to compressed wood pellets.

Drax Power Station in Yorkshire has been a changeover from coal to wood pellets

"We are no longer decided here in the case of Drax, the coal was The Future ," explains Gardiner, the managing Director of The Power group.

"It's a massive undertaking and the result of All That is, we have reduced our CO2 emissions by More Than 20 million tons per year to almost zero. "

He says, The Plant now uses the seven million tons of pellets, derived from the commercial forests in the United States for a year and says that Drax is coal completely by March next year

And it's not just coal that is to be darkened through the use of renewable energies.

So Far this year, Renewable Energy produced more electricity than all fossil fuels.

Break it, renewable energies were responsible for 37% of the electricity supplied to The Network , versus 35% for fossil fuels.

nuclear energy has a share of about 18% and the imports for The Remaining 10% or so, according to the online environmental journal, a Carbon Short.

"So Far this year, Renewable Energy produced more electricity than fossil fuels, and that's Never Happened before," says Dr. Simon Evans , Carbon Brief.

"With gas on The Decline , there is a real chance that Renewable Energy will overtake fossil fuels by the year 2020 as a Whole . "

- setting the numbers for this year, the context shows just how fast this shift is happening.

The First day, when Renewable Energy generated with fossil fuel materials was in December 2016.

Before this year, there were a total of 154 days, if the combined electricity generated from renewable energies than those from fossil energy.

Carbon letter says that 91 of Those Days occurred in the year 2019.

The Decline of The Role of fossil fuels in General and coal in particular, is likely to continue.

The Remaining three coal-fired power plants in the UK to be switched off within five years.

Then the force is substance, triggered the Industrial Revolution here in the UK for almost two centuries, is a thing of The Past .

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Source of news: bbc.com