On April 21, 2017, British Power Generation Achieved First Ever Coal-Free Day

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For the first time in the last 135 years, the British National Grid didn't use coal for a whole day and used other sources like gas, nuclear, wind and solar for production of electricity.

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Great progress, still a long way to go until this reaches a steady behavior!

That's cool. Renewable energy will be next!

Good news!

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keep it up

great post

As long as the renewable energy is 100% backed up by Nuclear then you have a way forward. Otherwise, welcome to South Australia.