The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a power plant that has dominated the surrounding central England landscape for nearly 60 years, marks a symbolic step in the UK's ambition to decarbonise electricity by 2030, and become carbon neutral by 2050.
One of the two units of the coal-fired Rampal Power Plant has started supplying electricity to the national grid on a trial basis.
The closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a power plant that has dominated the surrounding central England landscape for nearly 60 years, marks a symbolic step in the UK's ambition to decarbonise electricity by 2030, and become carbon neutral by 2050.
One of the two units of the coal-fired Rampal Power Plant has started supplying electricity to the national grid on a trial basis.