Britain has said goodbye to coal power, some 142 years after Thomas Edison opened the world’s first coal-fired electricity plant in London. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.
Britain has said goodbye to coal power, some 142 years after Thomas Edison opened the world’s first coal-fired electricity plant in London. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham, the last coal-fired power plant in the country, closed on Monday, the Guardian reports. The plant, which opened in 1967, employed more than 3,000 people at its peak but only 170 were left to gather in the canteen Monday to watch a live stream of the generating units being turned off for the last time.
