Coal Plants Going Green - UK
Coal Plants Going Green with BioMass End of Coal - International Trend The UK plans to end coal powered electricity by 2025. So what happens to the huge coal plants left behind? The largest power plant in Western Europe, Drax in the UK that now burns coal, is going green. By 2023, it won't burn coal. It will burn only biomass and natural gas. The biomass is wood pellets smashed to powder to generate electricity. Coals' Big Grid Connections Coal has been a big player in the global electricity market. Coal companies have expensive connections to national grids and cutting those connections may not be easy. Nonetheless, the UK has gone from coal being 45% of its power mix in 2012 to a very low amount today. The UK, like many other nations, is committed to cutting the dirty air emissions from coal. There's a drive to find alternative uses for the coal plants as nations convert to alternative energy. Big Money to Convert to Biomass It's very expensive to co