After some 115 years, Scotland has burned its last lump of coal for electricity. The Longannet power station, the last and largest coal-fired power plant in Scotland, ceased operations Thursday. Longannet station burned around 4.5 million metric tons of coal a year, and was responsible for a fifth of Scotland’s climate change emissions. What once was the largest coal plant in Europe shut down after 46 years before the eyes of workers and journalists, who gathered in the main control room. Longannet’s closure comes as Scotland, a country of some 5 million people, aims to have enough renewable energy to power 100 percent of its electricity demand by 2020.
Here's the moment #Longannet power station was shut down today marking the end of coal-fired generation in Scotlandhttps://t.co/rY2RtMTBWb
— ScottishPower (@ScottishPower) March 24, 2016
— source thinkprogress.org