{"id":6642,"date":"2016-04-20T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T08:55:43","slug":"cinders-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/04\/20\/cinders-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinders in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECC announced recently that, in 2015, 24.7% of the UK's electricity was generated from renewables \u2013 compared to 19.1% in 2014. \u00a0That's nearly\u00a0a 30% increase. \u00a0The fuel that made way for this was, inevitably, coal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile low-carbon activists were celebrating the (possible) demise of a US coal behemoth, <em>Peabody Energy<\/em> which was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of\u00a0debts of $6bn. \u00a0Since the start of 2015, five large American coal mining corporations have gone the same way.<\/p>\n<p>A dark future for coal, the Economist noted, whilst saying that even in the UK last week there was a day when renewables poured\u00a0more power into the grid than coal did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECC announced recently that, in 2015, 24.7% of the UK's electricity was generated from renewables \u2013 compared to 19.1% in 2014. \u00a0That's nearly\u00a0a 30% increase. \u00a0The fuel that made way for this was, inevitably, coal. Meanwhile low-carbon activists were celebrating...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}