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UK proposes closing all its coal-fired power plants by 2025

2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Britain aims to close its coal-fired power plants by 2025 under plans announced on Wednesday, becoming the first major economy to put a date on shutting coal plants to curb carbon emissions. Instead, the country will look to nuclear and natural gas-fired power plants to complement intermittent renewable energy, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd said. "It cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon-intensive 50-year-old...

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