As Liz Truss gave interviews about her new book, Chelsea prepared to thrash Everton 6-0 and the wind speed hit 25mph from Cornwall to Cumbria, something once thought impossible happened.
For an hour on April 15, Great Britain’s national grid ran virtually entirely free of fossil fuels. Between 12.30pm and 1.30pm, coal and gas power plants provided just 2.4 per cent of the country’s electricity supply, a record low. Instead, homes and businesses were running almost entirely on wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear reactors, biomass and links to France, Norway and other countries.
“If you went back five years, never mind ten years, a lot of people said it could never be done — [that] you will always need coal, you will always need gas,”
