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All Coal Power Stations to Close by 2025 in Britain

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Britain’s last coal power plants to close by 2025 The Guardian, November 9, 2016 The last coal power station in Britain will be forced to close in 2025, the government said as it laid out its plan to phase-out the polluting fossil fuel. Ministers promised last year that the UK would close coal power within … Read more

Hornsea Project One Gets the Green Light in Britain

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World’s biggest wind farm given go-ahead off Britain Phys.org, February 4, 2016. Image credit: music4life Offshore wind developer Dong Energy said Wednesday a final decision had been made to construct the 1.2 gigawatt Hornsea Project One scheme off the coast of Yorkshire in northern England. Scheduled for completion by 2020, the giant development would span 160 … Read more