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Britain’s last coal-fired power station shuts down
A view of the 655-acre site of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in the East Midlands
AN INDUSTRIAL era ended today when Britain’s last coal-fired power station shut down.
The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in the East Midlands was the final act in this country’s abandonment of a fuel which once generated more than 95 per cent of our electricity.
The last deep coal mine, Kellingley colliery in Yorkshire, closed in December 2015. Since then, the remaining coal-fired power stations have burned imported coal and coal from opencast quarries in Britain.
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