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| The last of New Zealand's coal-fired power plants will be gone by 2018. |
New Zealand electricity company Genesis Energy has announced that it will shut down its last two coal-fired power generators by December 2018 - a bold step towards the country's goal of being powered by 90 percent renewable energy by 2025.
The decision means that, with the exception of a few small-scale industrial plants, the country will no longer be burning coal to generate electricity, and will stop pumping around 1,600 kilotonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere within three years.
“Its closure marks the end of coal-fired power generation in New Zealand," the Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges said in a press release.
Read the Science Alert story - “New Zealand Will Shut Down Its Last Large Coal-Fired Power Generators in 2018.”
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