{"id":7234,"date":"2016-10-07T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:40:00","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-solar-overtaken-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7234","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – solar has overtaken coal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"800px-Shelby_Farms_Solar_Farm_Memphis_TN_2013-02-02_008\"<\/a>This week it was announced that solar has overtaken coal for electricity production in the UK.\u00a0 Not only that, but on April the 9th there was no coal fired generation for the first time since 1882.\u00a0 These figures are unofficial but likely to be true. This is an astonishing turnaround.\u00a0 When those of us were lobbying for a German style feed in tariff we thought this day would be decades off (especially with carbon capture and storage).\u00a0 For years coal has dominated our power profile although no coal fired power stations have been built in the UK since the early 70’s.\u00a0 In fact it was the miners strike in in 1974 when I was kid and the resulting three day week that gave me my interest in energy matters.<\/p>\n

Solar has overtaken coal not just because of the rise of solar capacity, but also due to the decline of coal.\u00a0 I saw a very interesting documentary looking a Scottish and Southern energy.\u00a0 They looked in one programme at an old coal fired power station.\u00a0 The problems with it were multiple.\u00a0 For starters it used to be run all the time as baseload.\u00a0 In latter years when there was lots of wind etc. it really was switched off.\u00a0 This is less good for the kit and was wearing it out faster.\u00a0 In addition it was old – and there is a warning here for nuclear- people were loosing the knowledge to repair it.\u00a0 Its since closed.\u00a0 Even before the governments’ coal phaseout announcement by 2025 the trend was clear.\u00a0 Soon solar will have overtaken coal permanently and its rapidly closing on nuclear and gas.\u00a0 The future really is renewable.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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