What happens today if everyone in, say, the United Kingdom switches to 'green' electricity providers? I hardly think the result will be blackouts...
Right now, even though we’re pretty close to the Winter solstice, the UK is producing about 1.5 times more electricity from solar than from coal.
Yes, there are other fossil fuels besides coal in the UK, and yes renewables only supply about a third of the UK’s electricity right now, but coal itself is practically dead.
Two of the six plants we have left announced last month they wouldn't be bothering going to the 2025 coal elimination date, and will close in 2020. Leaves 4 I think.
Same month the lovely government approved a new deep coal mine in Cumbria. huh?
Natural gas is not coal. It’s cheap and much cleaner.