In a new report published on Monday 30 September, the day the UK’s last coal-fired power station closed, the think tank Ember has indicated that by 2023 coal production in OECD countries will have been halved (-52%) since its peak in 2007.
The UK thus becomes the 14th of the 38 OECD countries to have introduced a coal-free electricity system. Of the 24 countries that still have coal-fired power stations, 19 saw their coal-fired electricity production fall by at least 30% compared with...