Fuel · coal
Coal power in Great Britain
Great Britain burned its last coal for electricity on 30 September 2024, when Ratcliffe-on-Soar closed - ending 142 years of coal power.
The live share reads 0% because it genuinely is zero - a flat zero is correct, not missing data. No operational coal stations remain in the fleet.
- Operational stations
- 0
- last plant closed Sept 2024
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Share of generation by year
- 200930.0%
- 201030.7%
- 201132.1%
- 201242.4%
- 201339.0%
- 201431.2%
- 201524.4%
- 20169.2%
- 20176.9%
- 20185.2%
- 20192.0%
- 20201.6%
- 20211.7%
- 20221.5%
- 20231.0%
- 20240.6%
- 20250.0%
- 20260.0% ytd
Yearly average share of GB generation, from NESO's historic half-hourly data. Explore any year in the history explorer.
Coal records
- First coal-free day
- 2017-10-01