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219:. Coal supplied just over 1% of UK electricity in 2023, down from 30% in 2014. In 2020, coal produced 4.4 TWh of electricity and Britain went 5,202 hours free from coal electricity generation, up from 3,665 hours in 2019 and 1,856 in 2018.
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