EGEB: The UK has its very first coal-free month ever in May
Coal-free UK power
As of April 28, as Electrek reported, the UK had not used coal-fired plants for 18 days and 13 hours, according to National Grid data. That was the longest uninterrupted period of not using coal-fired power generation since 1882, during the Industrial Revolution.
That record has been broken in a big way, as the National Grid reports that the country's electricity system continued without coal-fired electricity for the entire month of May. It's now run without coal-fired power for about 55 consecutive days. Wind and solar power supplied around 28% of the UK's electricity last month.
Since April, the carbon intensity of the electricity grid has fallen to the lowest average carbon intensity on record, at 143 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour.
This all happened because of the coronavirus lockdown, an extremely sunny spell, and two bank holiday weekends.
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