EU LEGISLATION FORCES UK TO SHRINK ITS COAL POWER GENERATING SECTOR
October 1st, 2012
BY ROBERT STOKES
THE SEPTEMBER 2012 announcement by utility RWE npower it would close the 2,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired Didcot A power station in southern England has highlighted the scale and speed of large coal plant closures in Britain. European Union (EU) environmental laws are being identified as a key culprit behind this trend.
The March 2013 closure planned by the UK subsidiary of Germany's RWE Group for Didcot A, (an ageing Oxfordshire plant commissioned in 1972), is particularly noteworthy given at October 1 this year, it had only 4,331 hours operating ...
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