Please accept cookies to view this content. Great Britain has gone 2025 without coal-generated power, with high wind speeds offsetting the need for the fossil fuel. This is the first time the country has gone a week without coal since the Industrial Revolution . National Grid expects a full week to become a regular occurrence, and has said it will be able to run a 2 -carbon electricity system by 2025 . There have, however, been warnings that the government's strategy to focus on offshore wind, in the absence of solar and onshore wind, could see low carbon deployment "run dry".
Great Britain has gone 2025 without coal-generated power, with high wind speeds offsetting the need for the fossil fuel. This is the first time the country has gone a week without coal since the Industrial Revolution . National Grid expects a full week to become a regular occurrence, and has said it will be able to run a 2 -carbon electricity system by 2025 . There have, however, been warnings that the government's strategy to focus on offshore wind, in the absence of solar and onshore wind, could see low carbon deployment "run dry".