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Recently we've had the seemingly rare combination of mostly-clear skies and a useful breeze, so maybe with higher than usual fraction of solar and wind, maybe it's easier to idle a coal plant than a biomass plant?
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Yes.
But biomass is struggling, very hard work to operate fully functioning working plants. Lots are struggling with crop they use being seasonal in new AD plants and older burny burny plants are struggling with lack of maintenance now biting their ass.
Coal is dead as the dodo they burn.
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Only four are left operational as unabated coal will be banned from 2025 so it has made maintaining and investing in them uneconomical.
Currently no coal power has been generated in the last 18 days mainly due to lower demand due to industry being shut down and sunny weather.
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The ever popular Gridwatch has ditched 'Coal' from the large circular analogue gauges and promoted 'Biomass'.
Does this mean all the UK's coal burning power stations have now reached their end-of-Life?