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The United Kingdom was the birthplace of coal. It has now, effectively, died there.
As shown in the chart, in the late 1980s, around two-thirds of the UK’s electricity came from coal. By the time I was born in the 1990s, this had dropped to just over half. The use of coal has plummeted in my lifetime. It now makes up less than 2% of the UK’s electricity. Coal was first replaced by gas but is now being pushed out by wind, solar, and biomass.
This Daily Data Insight was written by Hannah Ritchie.